Issue 123960

Summary:	Replace uses of auto_ptr with standard compliant smart pointers
Product:	General	Reporter:	hdu <hdu>
Component:	code	Assignee:	AOO issues mailing list <issues>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	issues
Version:	4.1.0-dev
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Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Issue Type:	DEFECT	Latest Confirmation in:	---
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Issue Blocks:	122766, 122208

Description hdu@apache.org 2014-01-03 09:23:59 UTC

The auto_ptr template was deprecated in C++11 because it has many well known problems that are solved by tts modern counterpart unique_ptr.

Auto_ptr was also often abused in cases where it shouldn't have been used. The shared_ptr and weak_ptr might be the suitable replacements in these cases. Also if auto_ptr was misemployed to manage arrays then the replacement should get custom deleters to do the delete[] for destructing the array. It's too bad that e.g. boost's shared_array_ptr didn't make it into the C++11 standard.