Chapter 15. Allocators
Allocators were introduced in Section 3.4. They represent a special memory model and are an abstraction used to translate the need to use memory into a raw call for memory. This chapter describes allocators in detail.
Using Allocators as an Application Programmer
For the application programmer, using different allocators should be no problem. You simply have to pass the allocator as a template argument. For example, the following statements create different containers and strings using the special allocator MyAlloc<>:
// a vector with special allocator std::vector<int,MyAlloc<int> > v; // an int/float map with special allocator std::map<int,float,less<int>, MyAlloc<std::pair<const int,float> > > m; // a string with special ...
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