From: Phil Bouchard (philippe_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-05-28 06:51:00
Greetings:
I have made some changes into my sandbox and I am happy to say some tests
send by Steven a while ago are now working correctly. The interface was
previously supporting only allocations made by "new_sh". I was aware of
this but now I am adding a solution to make shifted_ptr generic enough.
The solution is still a non-portable one but will be corrected shortly; it
consists of detecting the stack frame and I am using gcc's
__builtin_frame_address(). I also replaced Nedmalloc for Boost.Pool because
I temporarily wish to reduce problems I might face. The problem with
Boost.Pool is that it doesn't handle arbitrary sized chunks and the
complexity goes down to O(n) for array allocations. All in all shifted_ptr
behaves differently when a pointer resides either on the:
1. stack & data segment
2. local heap
3. system heap
Moreover the test file shifted_ptr_test3.cpp which uses BOOST_TEST macros is
crashing on gcc for Windows. The same tests appears in
shifted_ptr_test2.cpp and work correctly.
Finally yes I definitely need to write documentation about this but I will
basically need to write something similar to a book. For now I just want to
present a working example and here it is. The ultimate objective of
shifted_ptr is to handle neural networks for artificial intelligence
testings so feel free using the pointer in your tests to help me finding
flaws that might still exist.
Regards,
-Phil