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<h1 class="title"><img alt="Boost" src="boost.png" /> Pointer Container Library</h1>
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<tr><th class="docinfo-name">Author:</th>
<td>Thorsten Ottosen</td></tr>
<tr><th class="docinfo-name">Contact:</th>
<td><a class="first reference" href="mailto:nesotto@cs.aau.dk">nesotto@cs.aau.dk</a> or <a class="last reference" href="mailto:tottosen@dezide.com">tottosen@dezide.com</a></td></tr>
<tr class="field"><th class="docinfo-name">Organizations:</th><td class="field-body"><a class="reference" href="http://www.cs.aau.dk">Department of Computer Science</a>, Aalborg University, and <a class="reference" href="http://www.dezide.com">Dezide Aps</a></td>
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<tr><th class="docinfo-name">Date:</th>
<td>27th of October 2007</td></tr>
<tr><th class="docinfo-name">Copyright:</th>
<td>Thorsten Ottosen 2004-2007. Use, modification and distribution is subject to the Boost Software License, Version 1.0 (see <a class="reference" href="http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt">LICENSE_1_0.txt</a>).</td></tr>
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<div class="section">
<h1><a id="overview" name="overview">Overview</a></h1>
<p>Boost.Pointer Container provides containers for holding heap-allocated
objects in an exception-safe manner and with minimal overhead.
The aim of the library is in particular to make OO programming
easier in C++ by establishing a standard set of classes, methods
and designs for dealing with OO specific problems</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><a class="reference" href="#motivation">Motivation</a></li>
<li><a class="reference" href="tutorial.html">Tutorial</a></li>
<li><a class="reference" href="reference.html">Reference</a></li>
<li><a class="reference" href="guidelines.html">Usage guidelines</a></li>
<li><a class="reference" href="examples.html">Examples</a></li>
<li><a class="reference" href="headers.html">Library headers</a></li>
<li><a class="reference" href="faq.html">FAQ</a></li>
<li><a class="reference" href="#upgrading-from-boost-v-1-33">Upgrading from Boost v. 1.33.*</a></li>
<li><a class="reference" href="#upgrading-from-boost-v-1-34">Upgrading from Boost v. 1.34.*</a></li>
<li><a class="reference" href="#upgrading-from-boost-v-1-35">Upgrading from Boost v. 1.35.*</a></li>
<li><a class="reference" href="#future-developments">Future Developments</a></li>
<li><a class="reference" href="#acknowledgements">Acknowledgements</a></li>
<li><a class="reference" href="#references">References</a></li>
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<h1><a id="motivation" name="motivation">Motivation</a></h1>
<p>Whenever a programmer wants to have a container of pointers to
heap-allocated objects, there is usually only one exception-safe way:
to make a container of smart pointers like <a class="reference" href="../../smart_ptr/shared_ptr.htm">boost::shared_ptr</a>
This approach is suboptimal if</p>
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<li>the stored objects are not shared, but owned exclusively, or</li>
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<li>the overhead implied by smart pointers is inappropriate</li>
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<p>This library therefore provides standard-like containers that are for storing
heap-allocated or <a class="reference" href="reference.html#the-clonable-concept">cloned</a> objects (or in case of a map, the mapped object must be
a heap-allocated or cloned object). For each of the standard
containers there is a pointer container equivalent that takes ownership of
the objects in an exception safe manner. In this respect the library is intended
to solve the so-called
<a class="reference" href="faq.html#what-is-the-polymorphic-class-problem">polymorphic class problem</a>.</p>
<p>The advantages of pointer containers are</p>
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<li>Exception-safe pointer storage and manipulation.</li>
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<li>Notational convenience compared to the use of containers of pointers.</li>
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<li>Can be used for types that are neither Assignable nor Copy Constructible.</li>
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<li>No memory-overhead as containers of smart pointers can have (see <a class="footnote-reference" href="#id23" id="id2" name="id2">[11]</a> and <a class="footnote-reference" href="#id25" id="id3" name="id3">[12]</a>).</li>
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<li>Usually faster than using containers of smart pointers (see <a class="footnote-reference" href="#id23" id="id4" name="id4">[11]</a> and <a class="footnote-reference" href="#id25" id="id5" name="id5">[12]</a>).</li>
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<li>The interface is slightly changed towards the domain of pointers
instead of relying on the normal value-based interface. For example,
now it is possible for <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">pop_back()</span></tt> to return the removed element.</li>
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<li>Built-in support for deep-copy semantics via the <a class="reference" href="reference.html#the-clonable-concept">the Clonable concept</a></li>
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<p>The disadvantages are</p>
<ol class="arabic simple">
<li>Less flexible than containers of smart pointers like <a class="reference" href="../../smart_ptr/shared_ptr.htm">boost::shared_ptr</a></li>
</ol>
<p>When you do need shared semantics, this library is not what you need.</p>
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<h1><a id="upgrading-from-boost-v-1-33" name="upgrading-from-boost-v-1-33">Upgrading from Boost v. <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">1.33.*</span></tt></a></h1>
<p>If you upgrade from one of these versions of Boost, then there has been one
major interface change: map iterators now mimic iterators from <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">std::map</span></tt>.
Previously you may have written</p>
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for( boost::ptr_map<std::string,T>::iterator i = m.begin(), e = m.end();
i != e; ++i )
{
std::cout << "key:" << i.key();
std::cout << "value:" << *i;
i->foo(); // call T::foo()
}
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<p>and this now needs to be converted into</p>
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for( boost::ptr_map<std::string,T>::iterator i = m.begin(), e = m.end();
i != e; ++i )
{
std::cout << "key:" << i->first;
std::cout << "value:" << *i->second;
i->second->foo(); // call T::foo()
}
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<p>Apart from the above change, the library now also introduces</p>
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<li><p class="first"><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">std::auto_ptr<T></span></tt> overloads:</p>
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std::auto_ptr<T> p( new T );
container.push_back( p );
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boost::ptr_vector<Base> vec;
boost::ptr_list<Derived> list;
...
vec.transfer( vec.begin(), list ); // now ok
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</ul>
<p>Also note that <a class="reference" href="../../assign/index.html">Boost.Assign</a> introduces better support
for pointer containers.</p>
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<h1><a id="upgrading-from-boost-v-1-34" name="upgrading-from-boost-v-1-34">Upgrading from Boost v. <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">1.34.*</span></tt></a></h1>
<p>Serialization has now been made optional thanks to Sebastian Ramacher.
You simply include <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre"><boost/ptr_container/serialize.hpp></span></tt> or perhaps
just one of the more specialized headers.</p>
<p>All containers are now copy-constructible and assignable. So you can e.g. now
do:</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
boost::ptr_vector<Derived> derived = ...;
boost::ptr_vector<Base> base( derived );
base = derived;
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<p>As the example shows, derived-to-base class conversions are also allowed.</p>
<p>A few general functions have been added:</p>
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VoidPtrContainer& base();
const VoidPtrContainer& base() const;
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<p>These allow direct access to the wrapped container which is
sometimes needed when you want to provide extra functionality.</p>
<p>A few new functions have been added to sequences:</p>
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void resize( size_type size );
void resize( size_type size, T* to_clone );
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<p><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">ptr_vector<T></span></tt> has a few new helper functions to integrate better with C-arrays:</p>
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void transfer( iterator before, T** from, size_type size, bool delete_from = true );
T** c_array();
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<p>Finally, you can now also "copy" and "assign" an <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">auto_type</span></tt> ptr by calling <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">move()</span></tt>:</p>
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boost::ptr_vector<T>::auto_type move_ptr = ...;
return boost::ptr_container::move( move_ptr );
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<div class="section">
<h1><a id="upgrading-from-boost-v-1-35" name="upgrading-from-boost-v-1-35">Upgrading from Boost v. <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">1.35.*</span></tt></a></h1>
<p>The library has been fairly stable, but a few new containers have been supported:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">boost::ptr_unordered_set<T></span></tt> in <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre"><boost/ptr_container/ptr_unordered_set.hpp></span></tt></li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">boost::ptr_unordered_map<Key,T></span></tt> in <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre"><boost/ptr_container/ptr_unordered_map.hpp></span></tt></li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">boost::ptr_circular_buffer<T></span></tt> in <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre"><boost/ptr_container/ptr_circular_buffer.hpp></span></tt></li>
</ul>
<p>There are no docs for these classes yet, but they are almost identical to
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">boost::ptr_set<T></span></tt>, <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">boost::ptr_map<Key,T></span></tt> and <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">boost::ptr_array<T,N></span></tt>, respectively.
The underlying containers stem from the two boost libraries</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><a class="reference" href="../../unordered/index.html">Boost.Unordered</a></li>
<li><a class="reference" href="../../circular_buffer/index.html">Boost.Circular Buffer</a></li>
</ul>
<p>Furthermore, <a class="reference" href="ptr_inserter.html">insert iterators</a> have been added.</p>
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<h1><a id="future-developments" name="future-developments">Future Developments</a></h1>
<p>There are indications that the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">void*</span></tt> implementation has a slight
performance overhead compared to a <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">T*</span></tt> based implementation. Furthermore, a
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">T*</span></tt> based implementation is so much easier to use type-safely
with algorithms. Therefore I anticipate to move to a <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">T*</span></tt> based implementation.</p>
<p>Furthermore, the clone allocator might be allowed to have state.
This design requires some thought, so if you have good ideas and use-cases'
for this, please don't hesitate to contact me.</p>
<p>Also, support for Boost.Interprocess is on the todo list.</p>
<p>There has been a few request for <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">boost::ptr_multi_index_container<T,...></span></tt>.
I investigated how difficult it would be, and it did turn out to be difficult, albeit
not impossible. But I don't have the resources to implement this beast
for years to come, so if someone really needs this container, I suggest that they
talk with me in private about how it can be done.</p>
</div>
<div class="section">
<h1><a id="acknowledgements" name="acknowledgements">Acknowledgements</a></h1>
<p>The following people have been very helpful:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Bjørn D. Rasmussen for unintentionally motivating me to start this library</li>
<li>Pavel Vozenilek for asking me to make the adapters</li>
<li>David Abrahams for the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">indirect_fun</span></tt> design</li>
<li>Pavol Droba for being review manager</li>
<li>Ross Boylan for trying out a prototype for real</li>
<li>Felipe Magno de Almeida for giving fedback based on using the
library in production code even before the library was part of boost</li>
<li>Jonathan Turkanis for supplying his <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">move_ptr</span></tt> framework
which is used internally</li>
<li>Stefan Slapeta and Howard Hinnant for Metrowerks support</li>
<li>Russell Hind for help with Borland compatibility</li>
<li>Jonathan Wakely for his great help with GCC compatibility and bug fixes</li>
<li>Pavel Chikulaev for comments and bug-fixes</li>
<li>Andreas Hommel for fixing the nasty Metrowerks bug</li>
<li>Charles Brockman for his many comments on the documentation</li>
<li>Sebastian Ramacher for implementing the optional serialization support</li>
</ul>
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<div class="section">
<h1><a id="references" name="references">References</a></h1>
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<tr><td class="label"><a name="id8">[1]</a></td><td>Matt Austern: <a class="reference" href="http://www.cuj.com/documents/s=7990/cujcexp1910austern/">"The Standard Librarian: Containers of Pointers"</a> , C/C++ Users Journal Experts Forum.</td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>
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<colgroup><col class="label" /><col /></colgroup>
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<tr><td class="label"><a name="id10">[2]</a></td><td>Bjarne Stroustrup, "The C++ Programming Language", <a class="reference" href="http://www.research.att.com/~bs/3rd_safe.pdf">Appendix E: "Standard-Library Exception Safety"</a></td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>
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<tr><td class="label"><a name="id12">[3]</a></td><td>Herb Sutter, "Exceptional C++".</td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>
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<tr><td class="label"><a name="id13">[4]</a></td><td>Herb Sutter, "More Exceptional C++".</td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>
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<tr><td class="label"><a name="id14">[5]</a></td><td>Kevlin Henney: <a class="reference" href="http://www.cuj.com/documents/s=7986/cujcexp2002henney/henney.htm">"From Mechanism to Method: The Safe Stacking of Cats"</a> , C++ Experts Forum, February 2002.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="label"><a name="id16">[6]</a></td><td>Some of the few earlier attempts of pointer containers I have seen are the rather interesting <a class="reference" href="http://www.ntllib.org/asp.html">NTL</a> and the
<a class="reference" href="http://ootips.org/yonat/4dev/pointainer.h">pointainer</a>.
As of this writing both libraries are not exceptions-safe and can leak.</td></tr>
</tbody>
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<tr><td class="label"><a name="id17">[7]</a></td><td>INTERNATIONAL STANDARD, Programming languages --- C++, ISO/IEC 14882, 1998. See section 23 in particular.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="label"><a name="id18">[8]</a></td><td>C++ Standard Library Closed Issues List (Revision 27),
Item 218, <a class="reference" href="http://anubis.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/lwg-closed.html#218">Algorithms do not use binary predicate objects for default comparisons</a>.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="label"><a name="id20">[9]</a></td><td>C++ Standard Library Active Issues List (Revision 27),
Item 226, <a class="reference" href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/ext/lwg-active.html#226">User supplied specializations or overloads of namespace std function templates</a>.</td></tr>
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