smart pointers and adress pass

[SkyFox]

I have a question:

Do I have to use smart pointers as wel for adress passing?

So imagine I have a smart pointer containing the adress of the engine interface and I want multiple classes to know the adress (player, enemy etc). So I pass on the adress of the interface to those classes from the application class(where it's adress is requested with csQueryregistry). Do I have to use smart pointers as well in the classes I pass the adress on to?

[jorrit]

You certainly don't have to use csRef in the parameters of the functions. That's just wasteful. As to wether you keep the resulting pointers in csRef or not it is mostly up to you and depends on the situation. If your main class has a ref to the engine and that class is guaranteed to remain in memory all the time then it doesn't make much sense to have a csRef to the engine elsewhere. On the other hand it is also not a big problem. So do what you feel is best here.

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