[Patch] mt_allocator: spare mem & fix alignment problems

[Paolo Carlini]

B. Kosnik wrote:

>I'm not quite sure what is up with pthread7-rope. Do you know if this
>fails if std::string is used instead of rope? I'm just curious.
>  
>
Well, I'm happy to report (after all basic_string is my (old) baby ;) 
that with
std::string it does *not* fail...

Is it possible that actually rope is not as thread-safe as was supposed 
to be??

Paolo.