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Specific case of dangling reference during destruction

April 10, 2020 by

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Garmaine asked 3 years ago

This is the code I cannot change and have to adapt to:

struct SomeInterface
{
   ...
};

struct SomeClass
{
   SomeClass(SomeInterface& iface) : iface(iface) {}
   SomeInterface& iface;
   ...
};

I have to write a function where I will get SomeInterface from other function and return pointer to SomeClass which takes a reference to SomeInterface. The problem was, unique_ptr to SomeInterface will be created on that function stack so reference is gonna be invalid after returning from it. I wrote a simple wrapper class which inherits from SomeClass and extends it to hold a unique_ptr to SomeInterface.

std::unique_ptr<SomeClass> getSomeClass()
{
   struct SomeClassWrapper : public SomeClass
   {
      SomeClassWrapper(std::unique_ptr<SomeInterface> iface) 
        : SomeClass(*iface), 
          iface(std::move(iface)) {}

      std::unique_ptr<SomeInterface> iface;
   };

   std::unique_ptr<SomeInterface> iface = getIfaceFromSomewhere();

   return std::unique_ptr<SomeClass>(std::make_unique<SomeClassWrapper>(std::move(iface))
}

This solves SomeInterface's lifetime problem… almost. Unfortunately during destruction of SomeClassWrapper the member variable iface is destroyed first, so for a brief moment base class SomeClass holds a dangling reference.

How to achieve my desired result without this problem?

Cheers

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