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For guidelines on using owning and access pointers or smart pointers, please see the how to use pointers correctly page.

Owning pointers, or smart pointers, are pointers that retain knowledge of how many live pointers there are to their contained object. This has two purposes. First, the pointed-to object won't be deleted unless all owning pointers are deleted (preventing segfaults). Second, the pointed-to object will be deleted automatically if all owning pointers to it are deleted (preventing memory leaks).

This page once hosted documentation on Rosetta's deprecated ReferenceCount based smart pointer system.

See Also

• Access pointer
• How to use pointers correctly
• Src index page: Description of Rosetta library structure and code layout in the src directory
• Rosetta directory structure: Descriptions of contents of the major subdirectories in the Rosetta main directory
• ReferenceCount: Formerly used for owning and access pointers (now deprecated)
• Glossary: Brief definitions of Rosetta terms
• RosettaEncyclopedia: Detailed descriptions of additional concepts in Rosetta.
• Rosetta overview: Overview of major concepts in Rosetta
• Development Documentation: The main development documentation page