Re: [eigen] Structures having Eigen members and make_shared

[Mark Sauder <mcsauder@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Herve,

I was just reading up on the Eigen docs under Cause 2,

The same issue will be exhibited by any classes/functions by-passing operator new to allocate memory, that is, by performing custom memory allocation followed by calls to the placement new operator. This is for instance typically the case of std::make_shared or std::allocate_shared for which is the solution is to use an aligned allocator as detailed in the solution for STL containers.

 If you use the Eigen::aligned_allocator does it resolve the assertion, (e.g. make_shared<MyStruct, Eigen::aligned_allocator<MyStruct>>)?

(You have my sympathies in struggling with alignment issues. :} )

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​Mark​

On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 6:55 PM, Hervé Audren <h.audren@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello,

We recently ran into a "bug" where we had a structure containing Eigen members that triggered the infamous "unaligned array" assertion. Unfortunately, the solution proposed by the Eigen documentation is to add

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EIGEN_MAKE_ALIGNED_OPERATOR_NEW somewhere in the code, but it does not have any effect on make_shared<MyStruct>(args).

As I understand it, Eigen will try to keep C++03 compatibility as much as possible, and I am not sure it is possible to support this C++11 feature without breaking that. Maybe the documentation could be updated ?

Note: a simple fix is to use the slightly less efficient:
my_ptr = std::shared_ptr<MyStruct>(new MyStruct).

Cheers,
Hervé