[boost] aligned_storage not a POD?

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-04-23 14:33:12

boost::aligned_storage is supposed to be an implementation of TR1 
aligned_storage, which yields a POD. I even see a specialization of is_pod 
for aligned_storage in the header. However the class itself (::type only 
echoes its type back) does not seem a POD at all. It has a default 
constructor, destructor, a private copy constructor and whatnot. 
aligned_storage_test does not test its PODness, it only looks at is_pod.

I think that a reasonable test for PODness would be to try to initialize 
with = {} (if nonscalar) and/or use it in a union.

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Peter Dimov
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