Re: [boost] [Boost.Pool] TR1?

Subject: Re: [boost] [Boost.Pool] TR1?
From: Dave Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-04-11 21:02:04

At Mon, 11 Apr 2011 12:47:07 -0700,
Phil Bouchard wrote:
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> I see the Boost.Pool is not making its way up to the C++ standards yet
> an it is very unfortunate given its great use.  Boost.Pool provides an
> is_from() member function that does a simple range check and returns
> whether a pointer is part of the pool or not.  This is a very useful
> function which I think should be part of the standards because it
> could be used for the global pool as well; i.e. the one used by
> operator ::new and ::delete.  The benefits outweigh the costs.

Whatever the costs, you have a point because this is something that
can only be implemented portably by the standard.  I'm certain that
Boost.Pool invokes undefined behavior whenever it returns false from
is_from().

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Dave Abrahams
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