[boost] [interprocess] Mixed 32bit/64bit processes shared memory current status

Subject: [boost] [interprocess] Mixed 32bit/64bit processes shared memory current status
From: Pete Bartlett (pete_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-10-05 16:51:20

I wrote about:
 
>http://lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/2011/02/177696.php
>https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/5230

 

What was obvious to the contributors to the above discussion, but dawned on
me only slowly, was that mixed bitness shared memory only stands a chance of
working if ones uses

 

offset_ptr< void , boost::int64_t , boost::uint64_t >

 

rather than the default

 

offset_ptr< void >

 

(which is possible on current trunk).

I've now begun testing this in my own app and it is looking promising so
far.

 

Hope this helps someone googling for the same thing.

 

Pete