Boost logo

Boost :

Subject: Re: [boost] [variant] awkward recursion
From: Peter Dimov (lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-10-31 06:49:03


Steven Watanabe wrote:
> I believe that I've seen tickets in trac indicating
> that at least one STL implementation checks that
> the element type is complete, so we can't even
> assume that it works in practice.

The variant could perhaps define some dummy complete type X and allocate
space for vector<X>, betting on the fact that vector<Y> would have the same
size. And if it doesn't, well, the heap is it then.


Boost list run by bdawes at acm.org, gregod at cs.rpi.edu, cpdaniel at pacbell.net, john at johnmaddock.co.uk