[Boost-announce] Boost.Align review announcement

Subject: [Boost-announce] Boost.Align review announcement
From: Ahmed Charles (acharles_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-03-27 22:50:17

Hi everyone,

The review of Boost.Align by Glen Fernandes is scheduled from Friday, April 11th to April 20th. 

Source:
http://github.com/glenfe/align

Documentation:
http://glenfe.github.io/align

Description:
This library provides function align for implementations which do not have the C++11 standard library align function available.It
 provides allocation functions aligned_alloc and aligned_free as their 
functionality is not yet available in the C++ standard library. They use
 platform specific functions, if available, or use standard library 
functions in conjunction with align.It
 provides C++ allocators, class templates aligned_allocator and 
aligned_allocator_adaptor, which respect alignment. The first uses 
aligned_alloc and aligned_free while the second uses the allocator in 
conjunction with align.It also provides function is_aligned to test the alignment of a pointer.
Rationale:
C++11
 added the ability to specify increased alignment (over-alignment) for 
class types. Unfortunately, ::operator new allocation functions, new 
expressions, and the default allocator, std::allocator, do not support 
dynamic memory allocation of over-aligned data.
The aligned_alloc function can be used in place of ::operator new to specify the alignment of the memory allocated.The aligned_allocator class template can be used in place of std::allocator as an alignment-aware default allocator.The aligned_allocator_adaptor class template can be used to adapt any allocator into an alignment-aware allocator.
Notes:
The functionality provided by this library addresses needs
 in existing Boost libraries as well. Boost.SmartPtr has its own 
implementation of align, and Boost.Log and Boost.Interprocess have their
 own implementations of aligned_alloc and aligned_free. 

Boost List Discussion:
http://lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/2014/02/211723.php

Review Manager:
Ahmed Charles