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Thoughts on creating a tracking pointer class, part 13: Restoring the strong exception guarantee
Aug 27, 2025
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Thoughts on creating a tracking pointer class, part 13: Restoring the strong exception guarantee

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

Don't commit to anything until you know you can finish the job.

Thoughts on creating a tracking pointer class, part 12: A shared tracking pointer
Aug 26, 2025
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Thoughts on creating a tracking pointer class, part 12: A shared tracking pointer

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

Sharing a single tracking pointer among all instances.

Thoughts on creating a tracking pointer class, part 11: Repairing assignment
Aug 25, 2025
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Thoughts on creating a tracking pointer class, part 11: Repairing assignment

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

Restoring things that were automatically deleted.

Thoughts on creating a tracking pointer class, part 10: Proper conversion
Aug 22, 2025
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Thoughts on creating a tracking pointer class, part 10: Proper conversion

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

Making sure you cannot remove qualifiers.

Thoughts on creating a tracking pointer class, part 9: Conversion
Aug 21, 2025
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Thoughts on creating a tracking pointer class, part 9: Conversion

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

Making a read-only tracking pointer from a read-write tracking pointer.

Thoughts on creating a tracking pointer class, part 8: Tracking const objects
Aug 20, 2025
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Thoughts on creating a tracking pointer class, part 8: Tracking const objects

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

Making tracking pointers to const objects.

Thoughts on creating a tracking pointer class, part 7: Non-modifying trackers, second try
Aug 19, 2025
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Thoughts on creating a tracking pointer class, part 7: Non-modifying trackers, second try

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

Another attempt to make tracking pointers to objects that you can't modify.

Thoughts on creating a tracking pointer class, part 6: Non-modifying trackers
Aug 18, 2025
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Thoughts on creating a tracking pointer class, part 6: Non-modifying trackers

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

Making tracking pointers to objects that you can't modify.

Thoughts on creating a tracking pointer class, part 5: Copying our tracking pointer
Aug 15, 2025
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Thoughts on creating a tracking pointer class, part 5: Copying our tracking pointer

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

How to copy from a const tracking pointer.