Re: [boost] [outcome] High level summary of review feedback accepted so far

Subject: Re: [boost] [outcome] High level summary of review feedback accepted so far
From: Tim Song (t.canens.cpp_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-06-01 06:52:54

On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 4:34 PM, Niall Douglas via Boost
<boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> Well, apart from poor quality of implementation of std::variant
> sometimes. For example, libstdc++'s for GCC 7.1 appears to always use
> type erased memory allocation. Which, frankly, is daft in C++ 14 when
> you are storing either an int or a std::error_code. I would also assume
> that std::bad_alloc can be thrown from libstdc++'s std::variant<> :(
>

{{citation needed}}.

libstdc++'s <variant> may have problems, but dynamic allocation (which
would be completely nonconforming) is not one of them.