2009/7/5 Zachary Turner <
divisortheory@...>:
> I was wondering from a design perspective, why was it decided that
> intrusive_ptr should rely on user-defined free functions
> intrusive_ptr_add_ref and intrusive_ptr_release to handle the
> reference counting? This makes it somewhat inconvenient, for some
> constant type T, to support having two different instances of
> intrusive_ptr<T>, each of which use a different reference counting
> strategy.
>
I'm rather confused why you'd want to keep 2 different reference
counts in an object. As a workaround though, why not just use struct
T1 : T {}; and struct T2 : T {}; if you need 2 distinct kinds?
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