petdance/scratch — Issue #614: [DEPRECATION] ManagedStruct automatic resize on shape change
Author: petdance
Created: 2011-11-01 05:35:26+00:00
State: open
Labels: deprecation, Pri-normal, Sev-medium

Changing the shape of a struct can occur for reasons other than the desire to reallocate, for example, when trying to view contents as different datatypes (emulating perl's pack/unpack).

Also reshapes can take several steps. Reallocating each step is suboptimal. In stead, an allocate/reallocate method should be called after the reshaping is complete to reallocate to the new desired shape.
Trac ID #1554