Re: [boost] Two alined_storage classes in the CVS

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-02-04 09:49:17

Joaquín Mª López Muñoz wrote:
> John Maddock ha escrito:
>
>>> With the recent addition of TR1 aligned_storage to
>>> Boost.TT, there's a nasty collision with a class named
>>> exactly the same and living in boost/aligned_storage.hpp
>>> (this class is a spin-off from Boost.Variant, IIRC.)
>>> I think this has been discussed some months ago, but
>>> with no resolution to the best of my knowledge.
>>>
>>> Apart from the symbol clash, these two classes do not
>>> provide the same functionality, so I guess it'd be sensible
>>> to rename the older aligned_storage to something else.
>>> Ideas?
>>
>> Darn, normally I'd say that the older version has priority over the
>> name, however in this case since aligned_storage is part of the TR,
>> I'm leaning toward agreeing that we should rename the old version.
>
> I think this is the only reasonable option.

In my opinion, the older version needs to be removed entirely and the 
libraries should be updated to use the TR1 version of aligned_storage.