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[bearophile]

Steven Schveighoffer:

> It looks strange what you are doing.  A Foo can have a memory pool of a  
> lot of Foo's?  Do you mean to make the memory pool static?

Right and yes.


>I think that might work.<

It works if I use a global variable. But I'd like to not used global variables when possible.


> I think the main problem is you are defining MemoryPool!(Foo).Chunk which  
> specifically needs to know the size of Foo before Foo is completely  
> declared.
> It's like you are doing this:
> struct X
> {
>    X x;
> }
> Which clearly is incorrect.

But MemoryPool.sizeof is always 8 (on a 32 bit system) because an alias takes no space. So T.sizeof must be 12. I'd like the compiler to understand this.

Bye and thank you,
bearophile