[Boost-users] pool allocator size 0

From: Sebastian Pfützner (s.pfuetzner_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-06-21 04:58:14

Hello,

the following program crashes in the last line (deallocate) with VC8:

#include "boost/pool/pool_alloc.hpp"
int main()
{
     boost::pool_allocator<int> a;
     int* i = a.allocate(0);
     a.deallocate(i, 0);
}

I didn't find any annotations about restrictions regarding the allowed 
size, neither in the c++ standard nor in the boost docs. I thought, 
calling allocate is the same as calling array new with 0 (gives back a 
pointer != 0 which must be array deleted).

Is the boost pool allocator not fully standard compliant?
-- 
Sebastian Pfützner
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