Re: [boost] Re: what happened to allocators in boost?

From: E. Gladyshev (egladysh_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-08-27 13:05:45

--- Gregory Colvin <gregory.colvin_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> They are currently customizable either by modification of the
> shared_count source or specialization of sp_counted_base_impl.

I constantly hear this kind of arguments from the boost community
"you can change the source", "you can overload global new/delete", etc.

It seems like you are assuming that boost is supposed to be 
used by the end-user application developers only.
I disagree boost should be usable by in other C++ template libraries 
that are shipped separetly (just like boost is using STL).
In this case the library developer doesn't have an option
of modifing boost sources or overloading global new/delete
(just like boost cannot modify STL or overload new/delete).

Eugene

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