Hi, Vishnu M Menon wrote:
... My Question: Is it possible to use boost interprocess' shared memory allocator with the normal STL containers that come with standard C++ build environments (gcc on Linux and Solaris, Visual C++ on Windows, etc.)? I know that there might be an issue with some STL containers not properly supporting encapsulated pointers in allocators that handle offset differences in memory addresses. Is this the reason why interprocess has its own containers?
You are right. I don't know any STL implementation fully compatible with Boost.Interprocess allocators, but I haven't tested recent gcc (4.0 or newer) or Msvc 8.0 STL containers. And this is the main reason to offer specialized containers. Last time I checked STLport and the Rogue Wave STL (stdcxx) weren't compatible. Regards, Ion