On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 7:12 PM, Vladimir Vukicevic <vladi...@pobox.com> wrote: > It's unfortunate that we can't create a nsCOMPtr<> that will disallow > assignment to a bare pointer without an explicit .get(), but will still allow > conversion to a bare pointer for arg passing purposes. (Or can we? I admit > my C++-fu is not that strong in this area...)
We could do this if we instituted a new type and mandated that type be used instead of raw pointers for local variables. Call it RawPointer<T> or something. Using raw pointers like this is still inherently dangerous for nontrivial code -- including code that's subsequently changed to be nontrivial -- but if this bit of extra safety is important, it would be possible to get it this way. Of course, then review would have to check that RawPointer<T> is used instead of T*, unless we can get static analysis to do it. _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
