For the longest time I've written my own smart pointers to manage the lifetime of pretty much anything that needs a cleanup - database connections, query objects, file handles, threads, mutexes and yes raw pointers.
All of this code built just fine on pre c++11 compilers, ran reliably, was performant and easy to maintain.
Rolling your own smart pointers is not something I'd discourage.
All of this code built just fine on pre c++11 compilers, ran reliably, was performant and easy to maintain.
Rolling your own smart pointers is not something I'd discourage.