Fred Sundvik wrote:
Hi,
We recently had to use the regular expression library in conditions where there was no available physical memory, for reporting resource consumption when our console game runs out of memory. This wasn't possible however due to the fact that the basic_regex does some dynamic allocations and doesn't provide any allocator specialization, allthough match_results for example does. So we modified the boost code a little bit and added a new template paramter for the allocator, and made constructors that takes allocators as parameters.
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So my question is, what are the chances that theese kinds of modificiations gets implemented in the actual library, and possibly in the next c++ standard library as well? I consider it a quite big design flaw to not have any control of the internal allocations, so for me this a quite big thing.
+1; I agree with the OP's sentiments, though I wouldn't say it's necessarily a "big" design flaw. However, I've never used the Boost.Regex library, and I don't know if the next standard specifies allocator parameters. I gather it doesn't? <snip>