Re: Preventing/handling space leaks

G'day all. Quoting Gabriel Dos Reis :

I think it is fair to characterize auto_ptr as a curiously broken class since its conception and design.

I also think that's a fair characterisation. std::auto_ptr has always struck me as a fairly brittle abstraction. Learning that it has a new exception safety issue doesn't exactly come as a shock. Cheers, Andrew Bromage