On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 8:13 PM, Ion Gaztaņaga <igaztanaga@gmail.com> wrote:
sankar lingam wrote:
>
>
>
>                Can I create Boost multi_array in shared memory using
> Boost.InterProcess..?
> Can some one explain as to how this can be done.?
>
>              I tried providing the Boost InterProcess Allocator to the
> Boost multi_array but it gives the
> expected compiler error of casting an offset<ptr> to T* , when
> the multi_array tries to convert
> return type of the allocator allocate function(which is an
> offset<ptr>) to T*.
>
>        Can this problem be overcome by writing a custom stl
> compatible allocator wrapper over the interprocess allocator?
>
> Regards,
> Sankar

MultiArray is not compatible with Boost.Interprocess. I've never tried
that, so I can give any clue on how to solve this. It would interesting
to make MultiArray compatible with non-raw pointers, but this is a issue
MultiArray authors should address if they find it useful.

Regards,

Ion
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