Re: [boost] Custom allocator for shared_ptr

From: Felipe Magno de Almeida (felipe.m.almeida_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-08-10 00:46:14

On 7/28/05, Peter Dimov <pdimov_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> 
> No, sorry. But if you grep for BOOST_SP_USE_STD_ALLOCATOR, you'll see where
> to patch your local copy - it should be easy.
> 
> Out of curiosity, why do you need to use a custom allocator? To find leaks,
> for performance reasons, or because of tight memory requirements (embedded
> systems)?
> 

To be honest, I'm quite surprised it cant be used an allocator with
shared_ptr. Is there any reason it cant? (make interface more complex,
multi-threading issues, or just too much work, maybe latter ?).

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