Achilleas Margaritis wrote:
Is there an STL implementation without this problem? perhaps STLPort? I have to try it myself, but if anyone knows, please tell me.
Here is the discussion that I had on the libstdc++ list when I was trying to understand this issue: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/libstdc++/2005-05/msg00294.html At that time, the Roguewave STL was said to definitely support allocator::pointer, as was the Dinkumware library though there were some caveats about that IIRC. Since then, Ion has written his Boost.Interprocess containers (which are in boost svn, but not yet in a released version of boost). At the end of the thread that I link to above, Matt Austern points out some of the difficulties of implementing allocator::pointer. It boils down to this: "nobody has spelled out precisely what requirements my_allocator<T>::pointer must satisfy". Regards, Phil.