Re: huge container types?

From: dylan_at_[hidden]
Date: 2001-11-20 15:47:18

--- In boost_at_y..., Carl Daniel <cpdaniel_at_p...> wrote:
> Funny you should ask...
> 
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> On the subject of building a huge-vector with just a custom 
allocator, doesn't the (proposed?) guarantee that &v[0]
> yields a pointer to contiguous memory pretty much eliminate the 
custom allocator solution?
> 
Yes I realise that.  As it is, that clause is not in the standard yet 
anyway.  Maybe there's still time to suggest that the clause should 
not rule out the possibility of allocators that do not provide this 
guarantee (that is, it only exists when using std::allocator<>).
I'm not even sure if it's possible to do using just a custom 
allocator, but it would seem the ideal use for such a thing.

Dylan