Re: [boost] Re: Boost memory management guidelines

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-08-31 14:51:18

Gregory Colvin wrote:

[...]

Two small corrections:

> shared_ptr currently uses std::allocator to allocate counts
> regardless.

No, it uses plain new/delete by default. It is possible to get it to use
std::allocator via a #define.

[...]

> versus standard Allocator
>
>    Allocator::pointer p = allocator.allocate(sizeof T);
>    allocator.construct(p,T());
>    ...
>    allocator.destroy(p);
>    allocator.deallocate(sizeof T);

allocate(1) and deallocate(p, 1) if I'm not mistaken.