RE: [boost] Boost.pool

From: scleary_at_[hidden]
Date: 2003-11-18 13:30:50

> From: Ilya Chvetsov(work) [mailto:chvetsov_at_[hidden]]
> 
>    Hi, boosters!
> It  seems  to  me,  boost.pool  has  a problem. This problem has been
already
> reported.
> The following program hangs in allocate method.

Good catch. There appears to be some undocumented preconditions on a few
functions. I'll fix the docs.

> STLPort is using allocator in this manner, for example.

STLPort's usage of Allocators is well known to be broken. But it won't be
hard to change pool_allocator to account for the allocate(0) oddity as well.
I'll get it in when I can.

        -Steve