Re: [boost] smart_ptrs: Custom allocators.

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-08-17 09:21:21

At 08:44 AM 8/17/2001, Peter Dimov wrote:
 >From: "Murray Cumming" <murrayc_at_[hidden]>
 >> I'd like to use the shared_ptr smart pointer, but the underlying types
 >> that I am using have their own specific *_alloc() and *_drop() 
functions
 >> instead of using new/delete.
 >
 >Another mandatory link to
 >
 >http://groups.yahoo.com/group/boost/files/smart_ptr/
 >
 >The variant in shared_ptr_updates.zip can do
 >
 >shared_ptr<my_type> p(my_alloc(), &my_drop);
 >
 >You only need to convince Beman that this is a good idea. :-)

I'm sorry, I haven't looked at it. Lack of time.  Try convincing Greg.

Generally I don't like explicitly exposed allocators; they haven't met 
expectations.  A smarter implementation of shared_ptr<> should probably use 
a pool allocator internally, however.

--Beman