At Mon, 11 Apr 2011 12:47:07 -0700, Phil Bouchard wrote:
Greetings,
I see the Boost.Pool is not making its way up to the C++ standards yet an it is very unfortunate given its great use. Boost.Pool provides an is_from() member function that does a simple range check and returns whether a pointer is part of the pool or not. This is a very useful function which I think should be part of the standards because it could be used for the global pool as well; i.e. the one used by operator ::new and ::delete. The benefits outweigh the costs.
Whatever the costs, you have a point because this is something that can only be implemented portably by the standard. I'm certain that Boost.Pool invokes undefined behavior whenever it returns false from is_from(). -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com