Olaf van der Spek wrote:
Does Glen's make_shared_array have variants for both initialized and uninitialized allocations (for builtin types)?
This is a thorny issue. Some people want initialized allocations, some don't. I'm personally in the initialized camp, so I think that make_shared_array should initialize. But there is a legitimate need to allocate big uninitialized arrays. We probably ought to provide both. So how about... make_shared_array<T>( size_t n, Args&&... args ) // uses new(pv) T( args... ) make_shared_array_noinit<T>( size_t n ) // uses new(pv) T allocate_shared_array<T>( A const& a, size_t n, Args&&... args ) // uses new(pv) T( args... ) for now, but // A::construct( pv, args... ) at some point // when std::allocator_traits becomes widespread