Created on 2025-05-05.00:00:00 last changed 1 month ago
[ 2025-10-14; Reflector poll ]
Set priority to 4 after reflector poll.
"The wording technically allows you to write
allocate(same_as<size_type> auto)
and reject any other type."
"I imagine lots of code relies on `std::size_t` being accepted. That's surely a general design issue that's much broader than just the Cpp17Allocator requirement, and making the requirement stricter seems evolutionary."
It seems assumed that a `size_t` value can be passed to an allocator's `allocate` member function per the simple-allocator exposition-only concept in [allocator.requirements.general] and the minimal constraints for allocator types in [container.reqmts].
However, it is not exactly required that a type meeting the Cpp17Allocator requirements can be used with `size_t` values, because only allocator_traits<A>::size_type, which is possibly not `size_t`, is required to be usable with the allocator. Do we want to change these constraints, or change the Cpp17Allocator requirements to require accepting `size_t` values?| History | |||
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| Date | User | Action | Args |
| 2025-10-14 17:45:42 | admin | set | messages: + msg15159 |
| 2025-05-05 00:00:00 | admin | create | |