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Weak Pointers

Weak pointers are used to locate an object in memory without increasing its reference count or keeping it alive. The code demonstrates creating a weak pointer to a shared pointer within a local scope, so the shared pointer is destroyed but the weak pointer can still access the object.

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Weak Pointers

Weak pointers are used to locate an object in memory without increasing its reference count or keeping it alive. The code demonstrates creating a weak pointer to a shared pointer within a local scope, so the shared pointer is destroyed but the weak pointer can still access the object.

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// Weak pointers

// we use weak pointers to locate a specific obj in memory


//it wont keep the value and wont raise the number of owners
#include <iostream>
#include <memory>
using namespace std;
class MyClass
{
public:
MyClass() {
cout << "Constructor is invoked" << endl;
}
~MyClass() {
cout << "Destructor is invoked" << endl;
}

};
int main() {

weak_ptr<int>wePtr1;
{
shared_ptr<int>shPtr1 = make_shared<int>(27);
wePtr1 = shPtr1;
}

system("pause>nul");
}

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