Re: [PATCH] Move stl_uninitialized.h extensions to <ext/memory>

[Phil Edwards <pedwards at disaster dot jaj dot com>]

On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 07:59:46PM +0100, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> Paolo Carlini <pcarlini@unitus.it> writes:
> 
> | Hi,
> | 
> | this one moves some extensions present in stl_uninitialized.h to ext/memory. I
> | followed the very same approach used for stl_algo.h.
> | 
> | A small surprise came from discovering that the implementation of deque in fact
> | uses such extensions! (I learned that by grepping, since we are not currently
> | testing much deque... :-(
> 
> Thanks Paolo.
> 
> Before your patch goes in, we should study, understand and make
> surgery on std::deque, as there is no point in moving extensions away
> if we were to bring them back.

Such surgery is happening right now.  I've been adding doxygen-aware
comments to stl_deque.h since yesterday, and cleaning up the spacing as I go.
Something useful should be checked in soon.

(I'm doing this as part of PR 1853.  The interesting memory tricks played
by deque<> have gone undocumented for far too long.)


Phil

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