michael.a wrote:
So in closing, I'm interested in any ideas / advice, but compromising the
existing codebase is completely out of the question. You have my
appreciation in advance naturally...
I suspect the proper solution here is something from www.boost.org. You
didn't say exactly what you needed, but if its anything related to a
common programming pattern, Boost has probably already implemented it in
a portable or standard manner. See
<http://www.boost.org/libs/libraries.htm>.
In particular, see Boost optional, and aligned_storage in Boost typetraits.
Other people have already pointed it out, but I'll say it again:
language extensions are almost always the wrong solution for these sorts
of problems.
