Re: [Boost-users] custom allocators for shared_ptr

From: Zeljko Vrba (zvrba_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-09-28 09:22:31

On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 03:39:31PM +0300, Peter Dimov wrote:
> 
> In practice, it's rare for the user to want to use a custom allocator for 
> the control block, yet not use a custom allocator for the object, so forcing 
> him to pass a deleter as well is not as constraining.
>
But isn't overloading of new/delete the "usual" way of implementing a custom
allocator for a class?  In that case, an ordinary "delete" will deallocate
the class properly (hence my question about standard deleter class).