Month: January 2020

Summary In this post, I will introduce the scoping in nested classes and how friend classes work here. Conclusion The rules are, As any member of its outer class, nested classes have access to all names (private, protected, etc) to which the outer class has access; however, outer classes have no special access to inner…

Summary In this post, I will introduce custom deleters when using C++ std::shared_ptr and std::unique_ptr. Conclusion Use the following snippets. Note the fourth case, where a unique_ptr with custom deleter will not pass the deleter to the shared_ptr when using release(). class OldThing { public: ~OldThing() { if (allocated_) { std::cout << "MEMORY LEAK!" <<…