STL w/ smart pointers

[Phil Bouchard]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paolo Carlini" <paolo.carlini@oracle.com>
To: "Phil Bouchard" <phil@fornux.com>; <libstdc++@gcc.gnu.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 3:10 AM
Subject: Re: STL w/ smart pointers


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> 3- That leads us to the contributions from Bob Walters that we are in the 
> process of reviewing (see recent messages to the list). I think his last 
> attempt for the associative containers is promising and with small/minor 
> tweaks could be adopted by libstdc++-v3. Did you study his proposal? How 
> does it relate to yours? Please do that, in case also get in touch 
> privately with Bob and figure out a joint proposal (after the paperwork is 
> cleared, of course).

Well well well... the chances we end up with very similar proposals at 
nearly the same time are very low; but for the best.  We both propagate the 
allocator all the way up the _Node_base class and use its localized pointer 
type over there.

But on the other hand I would discourage the iterator being of that pointer 
type and simply letting it being a raw pointer because it's an iterator 
quite simply ;)  I mean I don't see the need adding too much overhead. 
Maybe allocators should contains localized iterator typedefs because they 
are different than pointers.

Thanks again for all the information Paolo, I am glad participating to 
libstdc++.


Regards,
-Phil