shared_ptr::operator-> does not fail for nullptr

[Jonathan Wakely]

On 11 June 2014 16:16, Christoph Mathys wrote:
> Now, is this the expected behaviour of shared_ptr? Do I need to check
> myself that my smart_ptr is non-nil similar to "manual" bounds
> checking when using operator[] on std::vector?

Yes, but a much better analogy than std::vector is using a normal
pointer. Don't dereference it unless you know it's non-null.