--- Comment #3 from jima at cadence dot com 2007-03-21 01:32 ---
Can you point me to a description of the C++ aliasing rules?
Is the memcpy() workaround specific to GCC, or is memcpy
part of the standard with special rules regarding aliasing?
(I ask because our code base has to work
--- Comment #5 from jima at cadence dot com 2007-03-21 02:31 ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> (In reply to comment #3)
>... Why do you think 1 or 2 more
> instructions will be a hit, most of the problems you are going to hit into now
> is cache issues anyways unless you do a b
--- Comment #7 from jima at cadence dot com 2007-03-21 16:13 ---
(In reply to comment #6)
> ... the proper way is to start a new object lifetime using placement new.
Are you referring only to internal operations in MyHeap::Malloc (in the demo
program), or do you mean that the over
--- Comment #8 from jima at cadence dot com 2007-03-21 20:58 ---
I tried using placement-new and explicit destructor calls to
delineate the lifetime of the allocator's internal class objects explicitly,
such that their lifetimes do not overlap with any references to the
same st
