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From: Joel de Guzman (djowel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-04-21 07:37:24


Fernando Cacciola wrote:

> padding 100%, but which will be quite easy to use is this:
>
> template<class T, class tag_t>
> struct aligned_storage
> {
> void const* address() const ;
> void* address();
>
> // If tag_t fits in the padding, it is allocated there,
> // else it is allocated separately (but in here)
> tag_t const& tag() const ;
> tag_t& tag();
> }

Funny, that was my first prototype :o)...
Yes, that's very good, if it's possible to implement....
I was concerned about, emmm..., alignment issues.
I reckon tag_t type should be enforced to be an integral
of some size.

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Joel de Guzman
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