Fix #1596 by making memory management more robust

[pulseview.git] / pv / data / logicsegment.hpp

diff --git a/pv/data/logicsegment.hpp b/pv/data/logicsegment.hpp
index 1f151eeb7a71e2e0f5e931f6ec0f3a7a08d7e0b4..2e37ed2d248df56c22d1e0d1cd703d7835425fcb 100644 (file)
--- a/pv/data/logicsegment.hpp
+++ b/pv/data/logicsegment.hpp
@@ -75,6 +75,14 @@ public:
 
        virtual ~LogicSegment();
 
+       /**
+        * Using enable_shared_from_this prevents the normal use of shared_ptr
+        * instances by users of LogicSegment instances. Instead, shared_ptrs may
+        * only be created by the instance itself.
+        * See https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/memory/enable_shared_from_this
+        */
+       shared_ptr<const LogicSegment> get_shared_ptr() const;
+
        void append_payload(shared_ptr<sigrok::Logic> logic);
        void append_payload(void *data, uint64_t data_size);