Re: [boost] Synapse library review starts today December 2

Subject: Re: [boost] Synapse library review starts today December 2
From: Klemens Morgenstern (klemens.morgenstern_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-12-03 13:07:14

Am 03.12.2016 um 18:56 schrieb Peter Dimov:
> Klemens Morgenstern wrote:
>
>> But really having a void* as part of a public interface would've 
>> given you a no, even if everything else was perfect with this library.
>
> This objection of yours doesn't make much sense to me. What problem 
> are you trying to prevent? Objects of different types don't typically 
> share the same address, so type safety can hardly be violated. Well, I 
> suppose you could use the wrong member of a union by mistake.
Or a boost.variant. Or you could just by coincidence have a new object 
at the address of an old one, long after it has been deleted - which is 
actually easy to do, since you can put the objects that emit on the stack.