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Section: 16.4.4.6.1 [allocator.requirements.general] Status: New Submitter: Jiang An Opened: 2025-05-05 Last modified: 2025-05-18
Priority: Not Prioritized
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Discussion:
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
16.4.4.6.1 [allocator.requirements.general] and the minimal constraints for
allocator types in 23.2.2.2 [container.reqmts].
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?
Proposed resolution: