Re: [boost] Trivial ctors/dtors

From: David Abrahams (abrahams_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-08-27 09:11:29

From: "John Maddock" <John_Maddock_at_[hidden]>

> Dave,
>
> >Unless I know that equality_comparable and less_than_comparable have
> trivial
> >destructors, I can't use them as shown above. I suggest that we begin to
> pay
> >attention to this little detail, and when trivial ctors or dtors are
> present
> >n a class, we mention it in our documentation pages.
>
> If this is a major concern and you want to be able to do compile time
> asserts and other stuff on this, then how about specialising
> boost::has_trivial_destructor etc?  The principal down side is that it
> introduces a dependency (on type_traits) that you may well not want....

That's an interesting idea, although I don't think it will work for
compilers that don't support partial specialization for some classes like
equality_comparable. I'm really more concerned with getting such properties
into the documentation, so that clients who use the libraries know what they
can count on.

-Dave