Allow Command-manager singleton to be deleted.

[simgear.git] / simgear / structure / SGSharedPtr.hxx

diff --git a/simgear/structure/SGSharedPtr.hxx b/simgear/structure/SGSharedPtr.hxx
index 3de62e6c7cb78819b411e5af6d1feffb31799402..081d5eb943b1bcb43cf89661228b4477ea94a7ab 100644 (file)
--- a/simgear/structure/SGSharedPtr.hxx
+++ b/simgear/structure/SGSharedPtr.hxx
@@ -123,4 +123,51 @@ T* get_pointer(SGSharedPtr<T> const & p)
 {
   return p.ptr();
 }
+
+/**
+ * static_cast for SGSharedPtr
+ */
+template<class T, class U>
+SGSharedPtr<T> static_pointer_cast(SGSharedPtr<U> const & r)
+{
+  return SGSharedPtr<T>( static_cast<T*>(r.get()) );
+}
+
+/**
+ * Compare two SGSharedPtr<T> objects for equality.
+ *
+ * @note Only pointer values are compared, not the actual objects they are
+ *       pointing at.
+ */
+template<class T, class U>
+bool operator==(const SGSharedPtr<T>& lhs, const SGSharedPtr<U>& rhs)
+{
+  return lhs.get() == rhs.get();
+}
+
+/**
+ * Compare two SGSharedPtr<T> objects for equality.
+ *
+ * @note Only pointer values are compared, not the actual objects they are
+ *       pointing at.
+ */
+template<class T, class U>
+bool operator!=(const SGSharedPtr<T>& lhs, const SGSharedPtr<U>& rhs)
+{
+  return lhs.get() != rhs.get();
+}
+
+/**
+ * Compare two SGSharedPtr<T> objects for weak ordering.
+ *
+ * @note Only pointer values are compared, not the actual objects they are
+ *       pointing at.
+ * @note This allows using SGSharedPtr as key in associative containers like for
+ *       example std::map and std::set.
+ */
+template<class T, class U>
+bool operator<(const SGSharedPtr<T>& lhs, const SGSharedPtr<U>& rhs)
+{
+  return lhs.get() < rhs.get();
+}
 #endif