On Sat, Sep 23, 2023 at 9:49 AM Simon Urbanek <simon.urba...@r-project.org> wrote: > > The copy constructor doesn't actually create a copy, it only acts as a > wrapper that preserves the same EXTPTR object, it is akin to increasing the > reference count, so the C++ class wrapped in the EXTPTR is only released when > the EXTPTR can be garbage-collected, i.e. all references are gone (including > all "copies"). > [Of course that is not true if you were to create two XPtrs with the same > pointer and a finalizer each, but that would be a bad idea, obviously].
Thanks Simon! This seems to be the behaviour I am looking for. Ralf _______________________________________________ Rcpp-devel mailing list Rcpp-devel@lists.r-forge.r-project.org https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rcpp-devel
