17 Sep
2010
17 Sep
'10
3:46 p.m.
On Fri, 17 Sep 2010, Frank Mori Hess wrote:
On Friday 17 September 2010, dherring@ll.mit.edu wrote:
The "standard" workaround is to allocate your own memory and use manual type casting. Boost::aligned_storage can be used to maintain proper alignment, but it cannot be placed inside a union due to the default ctor, dtor, and noncopyable functions. Thus I am forced to use part of boost::detail.
Questions: - Is there a better way to do this?
What about using boost.variant instead?
It doesn't satisfy my need for everything to be in-place (e.g. for seamless use with shared memory, memory pools, etc.). [Note: we don't actually use std::string; it was just convenient for the example.] Thanks, Daniel