juce_ContainerDeletePolicy.h

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*/
 
namespace juce
{
 
//==============================================================================
template <typename ObjectType>
struct ContainerDeletePolicy
{
    static void destroy (ObjectType* object)
    {
        // If the line below triggers a compiler error, it means that you are using
        // an incomplete type for ObjectType (for example, a type that is declared
        // but not defined). This is a problem because then the following delete is
        // undefined behaviour. The purpose of the sizeof is to capture this situation.
        // If this was caused by a OwnedArray of a forward-declared type, move the
        // implementation of all methods trying to use the OwnedArray (e.g. the destructor
        // of the class owning it) into cpp files where they can see to the definition
        // of ObjectType. This should fix the error.
        ignoreUnused (sizeof (ObjectType));
 
        delete object;
    }
};
 
} // namespace juce