-----Original Message----- From: Ben Hutchings [mailto:ben.hutchings@businesswebsoftware.com]

scleary@jerviswebb.com wrote:

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Sorry, Boost.Pool does not currently support MSVC, due to that compiler's extreme lack of template support. <snip>

For VC++ 6, all that should be needed is a _Charalloc function (instead of struct rebind) and a change to the type of deallocate's first parameter (to void *, which actually makes more sense).

The _Charalloc function requires each allocator to be able to allocate an arbitrary amount of memory. This goes against the entire design of Boost.Pool, and would be non-trivial (to say the least) to implement.

The VC++ 7 compiler is good enough to support standard allocators and the library does use them. With the addition of a variable name and semi-colon, the given example can be compiled with this version.

Glad to hear it. Too bad it's not released yet. -Steve