From 8ce58b1675e81a5249bed6101d4b6186f8be641b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Niels Dekker <nielsdekker@xs4all.nl>
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 09:35:12 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Added convenience class initialized_value, as announced at
 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel/169833

[SVN r42815]
---
 include/boost/utility/value_init.hpp | 35 ++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/boost/utility/value_init.hpp b/include/boost/utility/value_init.hpp
index 097f21a..4e2ab85 100644
--- a/include/boost/utility/value_init.hpp
+++ b/include/boost/utility/value_init.hpp
@@ -1,31 +1,20 @@
-// (C) Copyright 2002-2007, Fernando Luis Cacciola Carballal.
+// (C) Copyright 2002-2008, Fernando Luis Cacciola Carballal.
 //
 // Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See
 // accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at
 // http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)
 //
 // 21 Ago 2002 (Created) Fernando Cacciola
-// 24 Dec 2007 (Refactored and worked around various compiler bugs) Fernando Cacciola, Niels Dekker
+// 16 Jan 2008 (Worked around compiler bugs, added initialized_value) Fernando Cacciola, Niels Dekker
 //
 #ifndef BOOST_UTILITY_VALUE_INIT_21AGO2002_HPP
 #define BOOST_UTILITY_VALUE_INIT_21AGO2002_HPP
 
 // Note: The implementation of boost::value_initialized had to deal with the
-// fact that various compilers haven't fully implemented value-initialization:
-// Microsoft Feedback ID 100744 - Value-initialization in new-expression
-// Reported by Pavel Kuznetsov (MetaCommunications Engineering), 2005-07-28
-// https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=100744
-// GCC Bug 30111 - Value-initialization of POD base class doesn't initialize members
-// Reported by Jonathan Wakely, 2006-12-07 
-// http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30111
-// GCC Bug 33916 - Default constructor fails to initialize array members
-// Reported by Michael Elizabeth Chastain, 2007-10-26
-// http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33916
-// Borland Report 51854 - Value-initialization: POD struct should be zero-initialized
-// Reported by Niels Dekker (LKEB, Leiden University Medical Center), 2007-11-09
-// http://qc.codegear.com/wc/qcmain.aspx?d=51854
-// The constructor of boost::value_initialized<T> works around these issues, by
-// clearing the bytes of T, before constructing the T object it contains. 
+// fact that various compilers haven't fully implemented value-initialization.
+// The constructor of boost::value_initialized<T> works around these compiler
+// issues, by clearing the bytes of T, before constructing the T object it
+// contains. More details on these issues are at libs/utility/value_init.htm
 
 #include <boost/aligned_storage.hpp>
 #include <boost/detail/workaround.hpp>
@@ -110,6 +99,18 @@ T& get ( value_initialized<T>& x )
   return x.data() ;
 }
 
+
+class initialized_value
+{
+  public :
+    
+    template <class T> operator T() const
+    {
+      return get( value_initialized<T>() );
+    }
+};
+
+
 } // namespace boost