Modern C++ Programming Cookbook

How it works...

shared_ptr is very similar to unique_ptr in many aspects; however, it serves a different purpose: sharing the ownership of an object or array. Two or more shared_ptr smart pointers can manage the same dynamically allocated object or array, which is automatically destroyed when the last smart pointer goes out of scope, is assigned a new pointer with operator=, or is reset with method reset(). By default, the object is destroyed with operator delete; however, the user could supply a custom deleter to the constructor, something that is not possible using std::make_shared(). If the shared_ptr is used to manage an array of objects, a custom deleter must be supplied. In this case, you can use std::default_delete<T[]>, which is a ...