id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
5686	Member function and member variable pointers don't work well with shared_ptr	patvarilly@…	Peter Dimov	"The current implementation of shared_ptr doesn't overload operator->*, so member function and member variable pointers don't play nicely with shared_ptrs.  I would imagine that this is trivial to fix given the existing operator-> implementation.  Here's an example of what doesn't work but should:

{{{
#!cpp
class A
{
public: int memberA;
}

...
int A::*memberVariablePtr = &A::memberA;
shared_ptr<A> ASharedPtr( ... );

// The following two pieces of code should be functionally identical

// 1) Doesn't compile.  Error in g++: ""base operand of -> is not a pointer""
//      It took me a while to figure out what g++ was complaining about
int val = ASharedPtr->*memberVariablePtr;   

// 2) Compiles and works just fine
int val = ASharedPtr.get()->*memberVariablePtr;
}}}

Note: I tried this with version 1.45.0, but looked up the documentation of shared_ptr in 1.46.1 to make sure that this hasn't already been addressed."	Bugs	closed	To Be Determined	smart_ptr	Boost 1.45.0	Problem	wontfix	shared_ptr pointer-to-member