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Re: Problem with auto_prt copy-ctor under last several versions of g++.
Benjamin Scherrey <scherrey@switchco.com> writes:
| Darn - this is a pain. I guess I'll have to drop the auto_ptr in my
| code. Meanwhile, shouldn't there be an explicit private declaration of
| the copy constructor and assignment operators in order to make this
| disallowment more clear.
Why??? The C++ definition does define them public. GCC is following
the Standard.
| ... Also, what is the purpose of having a
| constructor that takes a non-const instance if copy constructors are
| supposed to be illegal?
Not being CopyConstructible isn't equivalent to having private copy
constructor. Furthermore having a copy constructor taking a non-const
reference makes it sure that temporaries are not copiable.
If your point is that auto_ptr<T> is useless, please consider
news:comp.std.c++
-- Gaby