Hello, all ...

I want to use a smart pointer, preferably boosty, to encapsulate an array of unsigned chars that I need to allocate from the heap:

int main()
{
unsigned char *pBuf = new unsigned char[ 512 * 1024 ]; // icky, this isn't quite smart enough :-)

auto_ptr< unsigned char * > pBuf( new unsigned char[ 512 * 1024 ] ); // no work, auto_ptr dtor does not call delete[]

boost::scoped_array< unsigned char *> pBuf( new unsigned char[ 512 * 1024 ] ); // no work, boost expect an array of unsigned char pointers here, not an array of unsigned chars

// the thing I kinda need to do is ...

fread( pBuf, 1, lotsa_bytes, pFile );
}

... any hints? I'm not new to smart pointers, but I am kinda new to boost ...

Regards,

John

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