Message memory management using smart pointers about cyclus HOT 1 CLOSED

actually, shared_ptr doesn't work for the Message class because of the way messages send themselves by passing their this pointers as an argument from inside the sendOn and approveTransfer methods. Using shared pointers would result in multiple shared pointer objects tracking the same Message object in memory (very bad). I will be using intrusive pointers to overcome this problem - each message object will track its own reference count.

from cyclus.