allocator question, regarding pointer types

[Benjamin Kosnik]

>However, in the stl code I've looked at (specifically, the stl headers
>that came with gcc 3.2), that typedef is not used, but instead I see:
>
>    struct _List_node_base
>  {
>    _List_node_base* _M_next;
>    _List_node_base* _M_prev;
>  };

There are big changes between 3.2/3.3 and 3.4 sources WRT allocators. 

The 3.4 sources are more in line with the standard.

>This seems (from my naive reading of std::allocator articles) to break
>the allocator design.  i.e. I thought that if I wanted to create an
>allocator that can magically return a pointer of size 1 byte, that the
>typedef inside the allocator ( typedef char pointer; ) would be used
>in the container for the pointer type.

Please provide sources to what you are trying to do.

-benjamin