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From: Marius Amado Alves <amado.alves@netcabo.pt>
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Subject: Re: Multiple access to one object and deallocation
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On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 13:17, Harry Tucker wrote:
> My question is how to count references to an object so it will be 
> deallocated only after all references have gone out of scope or set to 
> null? An object reference could exist in several lists at any one time.

This is often called "smart pointers" and often effected with storage
pools. There are examples out there.