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Document number: N4168

Date: 2014-10-02

Removing auto_ptr

by Billy Baker

Excerpt:

At Oxford in 2007, N1856 was accepted adding unique_ptr and making auto_ptr deprecated. At CppCon in 2014, Howard Hinnant stated that he would like to see auto_ptr removed from future C++ standards. This paper proposes that auto_ptr be removed entirely. Removing auto_ptr now would give plenty of time before the next C++ standard for code to be updated if necessary.