Re: [boost] make_shared_array

Subject: Re: [boost] make_shared_array
From: Rob Stewart (robertstewart_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-11-03 08:44:04

On Nov 2, 2012, at 9:33 AM, Giovanni Piero Deretta <gpderetta_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 12:37 AM, Peter Dimov <lists_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> 
>> Olaf van der Spek wrote:
>> 
>> Does Glen's make_shared_array have variants for both initialized and
>>> uninitialized allocations (for builtin types)?
>> 
>> This is a thorny issue. Some people want initialized allocations, some don't.
> 
> what about a boost::uninitialized object which is implicitly convertible to
> any T and will return an uninitialized T? 

That would only work for built-in types and for UDTs with a default ctor that leaves the data members uninitialized.

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Rob