Allocator Compiler Error on GCC 3.4.4

From:
"jehugaleahsa@gmail.com" <jehugaleahsa@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++.moderated
Date:
Mon, 14 May 2007 02:16:28 CST
Message-ID:
<1179105820.278962.308210@y80g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>
Hello:

I have been trying to write a custom allocator after reading about
them in Effective STL. I found a "template" for allocators and
inserted my own code.

When I compiled it on VC++ 8, it worked fine and dandy. However, on
GCC 3.4.4 it gives me two errors:

stlTest.cpp:10: error: no matching function for call to
`WorstAllocator<int>::WorstAllocator(WorstAllocator<int>)'

It appears as though the code is looking for a copy ctor with the
wrong signature. I get this error when trying to create a vector<int,
WorstAllocator<int> >

I have the following code:

#include "memory.hpp"
#include <cstddef>
#include <numeric>

template<typename T>
class WorstAllocator {
public :
    // typedefs
    typedef T value_type;
    typedef value_type * pointer;
    typedef const value_type * const_pointer;
    typedef value_type & reference;
    typedef const value_type & const_reference;
    typedef std::size_t size_type;
    typedef std::ptrdiff_t difference_type;
    const static size_type MEMORY_SIZE = 70000;

    // convert an allocator<T> to allocator<U>
    template<typename U>
    struct rebind {
        typedef WorstAllocator<U> other;
    };

    inline explicit WorstAllocator() {}
    inline ~WorstAllocator() {}
    inline explicit WorstAllocator(WorstAllocator const&) {}
    template<typename U>
    inline explicit WorstAllocator(WorstAllocator<U> const&) {}

    // address
    inline pointer address(reference r) { return &r; }
    inline const_pointer address(const_reference r) { return &r; }

    // memory allocation
    inline pointer allocate(size_type cnt,
        void * = 0) {
       return reinterpret_cast<T *>(
            WorstMemory<MEMORY_SIZE>::allocate(static_cast<int>(cnt *
sizeof(T))));
    }
    inline void deallocate(pointer p, size_type) {
        WorstMemory<MEMORY_SIZE>::deallocate(p);
    }

    // size
    inline size_type max_size() const {
        return MEMORY_SIZE / sizeof(T);
    }

    // construction/destruction
    inline void construct(pointer p, const T& t) { new(p) T(t); }
    inline void destroy(pointer p) { p->~T(); }

    inline bool operator==(WorstAllocator const&) { return true; }
    inline bool operator!=(WorstAllocator const& a) { return !
operator==(a); }
}; // end of class Allocator

I am hoping that these are simple issues. Any help would be
appreciated.

I wanted to see if I could hook a custom allocator up to a Worst Fit
memory manager I wrote long ago. It works great with VC++8!

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