ACE_Based_Pointer(3)

NAME

ACE_Based_Pointer - A smart proxy that keeps track of the relative offset of a "pointer" from its base address.

SYNOPSIS

#include <ace/Based_Pointer_T.h>
template<class CONCRETE>
class ACE_Based_Pointer : public ACE_Based_Pointer_Basic<CONCRETE>
{
  public:
    ACE_Based_Pointer (void);
    ACE_Based_Pointer (CONCRETE *initial);
    ACE_Based_Pointer (const ACE_Based_Pointer<CONCRETE> &);
    void operator = (const ACE_Based_Pointer<CONCRETE> &);
    void operator = (CONCRETE *from);
    CONCRETE *operator-> (void);
};

DESCRIPTION

This class makes it possible to transparently use "pointers" in shared memory as easily as programming with pointers to local memory by overloading the C++ delegation operator -().

Initialization method.

ACE_Based_Pointer (void);

Constructor. See constructor for ACE_Based_Pointer_Basic for details.

ACE_Based_Pointer (CONCRETE *initial);

Initialize this object using the initial pointer.

ACE_Based_Pointer (const ACE_Based_Pointer<CONCRETE> &);

Copy constructor (not implemented yet).

void operator = (const ACE_Based_Pointer<CONCRETE> &);

Assignment operator.

void operator = (CONCRETE *from);

Pseudo-assignment operator.

CONCRETE *operator-> (void);

The C++ "delegation operator".

AUTHOR

Dietrich Quehl [email protected] and Douglas C. Schmidt [email protected]

LIBRARY

ace