id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
944	smart_ptrs: Custom allocators.	murrayc	Peter Dimov	"{{{
I'd like to use the shared_ptr smart pointer, but the
underlying types that I am using have their own
specific *_alloc() and *_drop() functions instead of
using new/delete.

If the smart_ptr template classes took an allocator
type as a template arg then we would just have to
define our own allocators for things like this. By
using a default allocator that used new/delete there
would be no impact on current code.
e.g.
template< typename T, typename
Tallocator=default_allocator<T>>
class shared_ptr {};

Maybe the default_allocator<> is a bit like
std::allocator<>, but I'm not sure about that.

This would reduce the code for a lot of C-API wrapper
projects.


}}}"	Feature Requests	closed		smart_ptr	None		Fixed