returning a 'pointer' which is required to be held by a smart pointer

Question

I have a project which I would like to make more use of smart pointers. Overall, I have been successful in this goal. However, I\'ve come across one things which I\'m not sure w

Answer 1

With C++11 you should be able to use std::unique_ptr as the other smart pointer types have constructors that take a std::unique_ptr. If you maintain an internal list of such resources then you'd probably want to use std::shared_ptr.