Re: [Boost-users] Debug data structures using aligned storage

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-06-18 16:36:20

Pierre THIERRY <nowhere.man_at_[hidden]> writes:

> Le Sun, 18 Jun 2006 05:31:53 -0400, Edward Diener a écrit :

>> What Dave suggested is standard information for anyone using a

>> debugger in C++. Putting that in the Boost documentation is

>> unnecessary.

>

> Without using aligned storage, I do not see why anyone would have to

> do such a cast to debug data structures...  So it doesn't seem to me

> to be standard in any way for C++.

I assume unions have the same problem.  So does shared_ptr<void>.  And

void*.

All that said, I'm sympathetic to your point of view.

> BTW, is there any way for the debugger to know automatically what the

> type the storage should be cast to?

Not without some extra-linguistic mechanism to tell it what type is

stored.  It would have to use some sort of debugger-specific hook.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
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