Starting this month, I would be posting a C++ programming problem, and it's solution every month in a series called C++ Challenge of the Month (CCOM). The solution will be posted a couple of weeks after the problem and in the meanwhile, I hope to see a few readers try their hand at the problem. So here we go.
CCOM #1: Write the outline of a smart pointer class capable of managing pointers to classes from hierarchies which don't have a virtual destructor
Need a smart pointer, which can be used like:
smart_ptr<base> p = new derived;
When p goes out of scope, the object must be deleted and the destructor of derived must be called, irrespective of whether ~base() is virtual or not.
Courtesy, Syam Krishnan, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.
