Re: [boost] Re: basic guarantees in variant (was: unions)

From: E. Gladyshev (egladysh_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-10-08 22:14:29

--- Eric Friedman <ebf_at_[hidden]> wrote:
[...]

> > Could it be done on the stack and not on heap or duplicate space?
> > I think that I can outline a solution about how to do it
> > w/o heap or duplicate space.
> 
> Go ahead and try, but I don't think you'll be successful.
> 
> Eric
> 
> P.S. If your "solution" is based on memcpy-away/memcpy-back, then it is 
> problematic because 1) it relies on undefined behavior and 2) it is not 
> thread-safe.

No need to use memcpy.
I don't worry about threads in variant for now.
Please wait, I am working on it.

Eugene

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