this-pointer

std::shared_ptr of this

There is std::enable_shared_from_this just for this purpose. You inherit from it and you can call .shared_from_this() from inside the class. Also, you are creating circular dependencies here that can lead to resource leaks. That can be resolved with the use of std::weak_ptr. So your code might look like this (assuming children rely on existence of … Read more

Type of ‘this’ pointer

The type of this pointer is either ClassName * or const ClassName *, depending on whether it is inspected inside a non-const or const method of the class ClassName. Pointer this is not an lvalue. class ClassName { void foo() { // here `this` has `ClassName *` type } void bar() const { // here … Read more