Related to this question on CodeReview, I tried to use std::unordered_map
with a custom allocator but apparently this does not work with gcc/clang and libstdc++. The error can be generated from initializing an empty hash map with a std::allocator
#include <unordered_map>
int main()
{
typedef std::allocator<std::pair<const int, int>> A;
typedef std::unordered_map<int, int, std::hash<int>, std::equal_to<int>, A> H;
auto h = H{A()}; // ERROR, cannot find constructor H::H(const A&)
}
Live Example.
Question: is libstdc++ support for constructing std::unordered_map
with a single allocator as argument incomplete?
UPDATE: further inspection shows that, for almost all containers other than std::vector
, uses of allocators in libstdc++ access typedefs and member functions of allocators directly, rather than through std::allocator_traits
. This works for std::allocator
but fails for all custom allocators, unless they verbosely add those members and typedefs directly.
In latest doxygen docs generated on 2013-08-01, it's there on line 178:
explicit
unordered_map(const allocator_type& __a)
: _M_h(__a)
{ }
However, in the docs for 4.8.1 it's not there, which is the same as my local one. As as far as g++4.8 is concerned its not implemented.
Found the link to the patch. It was dated 2013-04-22, which was a little after the release of 4.8.
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