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[Jon Evans <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It's worth mentioning that I'm getting rid of PARAM_CFG_ARRAY in my new
settings branch (should be done before FOSDEM)

On Sun, Jan 12, 2020 at 10:31 AM Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Wayne,
>
> The main one that permeates the code is CONFIG_PARAM_ARRAY.  It doesn't
> use any of the boost::ptr_array fancy stuff.
>
> We don’t currently catch /any/ of the exceptions thrown by boost for this
> data structure, so that part is unchanged.  What does change is the
> signal-to-noise ratio out of Coverity.
>
> I was also going to do SCH_SHEET_PINS, which is the same, but has much
> less widespread use.
>
> Cheers,
> Jeff.
>
>
> > On 12 Jan 2020, at 13:21, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Jeff,
> >
> > We should probably discuss this a bit before you spend any time on it.
> > The boost pointer containers do a lot of housekeeping under the hood
> > that the standard c++ containers do not.  This means that all of the
> > object cloning behavior automatically handled by the boost pointer
> > containers will have to be duplicated.  How do plan on handling out of
> > memory errors which I believe is the only exception that boost pointer
> > containers throw?  Ignoring out of memory errors is not an acceptable
> > option.  These issues will need to be address in order to convert over
> > to the standard c++ containers.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Wayne
> >
> > On 1/12/20 7:34 AM, Jeff Young wrote:
> >> I’ve given up chasing down all the places where we fail to catch boost
> exceptions.
> >>
> >> I’m removing boost::ptr_vector<T> in favour of std::vector<T*> (which
> boost uses under the hood anyway).
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