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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Subject: Re: Q: Creating my own storage pools
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porton@ex-code.com (Victor Porton) writes:

> 13.11.20. "The effect of calling Allocate and Deallocate for a standard
> storage pool directly (rather than implicitly via an allocator or an
> instance of Unchecked_Deallocation) is unspecified."
> 
> I want to use the standard storage pool for allocating memory for my
> own portable storage pool. But how to allocate from the standard pool
> the given number of storage elements?

Use "new" on a type with no "for T'Storage_Pool use...".

>... Should I use packed arrays?

I don't think packing has anything to do with it.

> Also how to deal with alignment of the allocated memory?

Say "for T'Alignment use ..." on the type that is being new-ed.
This is probably an array of bytes or array of words or some
such thing, and your pool is allocating individual pieces of those
chunks.

- Bob