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[Andreas Fabri <>]

Wolfgang Aigner wrote:
> On Friday 18 April 2008 11:48:50 Andreas Fabri wrote:
> > Wolfgang Aigner wrote:
> > > simple destructor with delete for bbox if not NULL indeed did the job,
> > > thank you!
> > I am not sure that this is enough. When you copy construct a point
> > the pointer is just copied. So when you destruct the first copy
> > the shared bbox is deleted.
> >
> > andreas
> True. It worked for the minimal example, but seems generally to be a bit more 
> complicated. A solution would be a reference counter or a smart pointer i 
> guess.
>
> wolfgang

Or a copy constructor setting the bbox to NULL. The function
accessing the bbox creates it on the fly if necessary.

andreas