[boost] Re: Two alined_storage classes in the CVS

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-02-04 12:14:53

"Peter Dimov" <pdimov_at_[hidden]> writes:

> 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. 

There was a good reason Boost.Python was using a different
implementation, so that could be a very bad idea.  Unfortunately I
don't remember the details.

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Dave Abrahams
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