Add templated reallocate & fix the templated allocate definition

Author: LessComplexity

MemoryPool.h

@@ -77,6 +77,10 @@ namespace CPPShift::Memory {
 		 */
 		void* reallocate(void* unit_pointer_start, size_t new_size);
 
+		// Templated re-allocation
+		template<typename T>
+		T* reallocate(T* unit_pointer_start, size_t new_size);
+
 		/**
 		 * Frees memory in a pool
 		 *
@@ -106,14 +110,18 @@ namespace CPPShift::Memory {
 		 */
 		void endScope();
 	};
+
+	template<typename T>
+	inline T* MemoryPool::allocate(size_t instances) {
+		return reinterpret_cast<T*>(this->allocate(instances * sizeof(T)));
+	}
+
+	template<typename T>
+	inline T* MemoryPool::reallocate(T* unit_pointer_start, size_t instances) {
+		return reinterpret_cast<T*>(this->reallocate(reinterpret_cast<void*>(unit_pointer_start), instances * sizeof(T)));
+	}
 }
 
 // Override new operators to create with memory pool
 extern void* operator new(size_t size, CPPShift::Memory::MemoryPool* mp);
-extern void* operator new[](size_t size, CPPShift::Memory::MemoryPool* mp);
-
-
-template<typename T>
-inline T* allocate(size_t instances) {
-	return reinterpret_cast<T*>(this->allocate(instances * sizeof(T)));
-}
+extern void* operator new[](size_t size, CPPShift::Memory::MemoryPool* mp);

README.md

@@ -26,9 +26,9 @@ I hope this simple feature will help you increase your software's performance -
 To use the memory pool features you just need to copy the [MemoryPool.cpp](MemoryPool.cpp), [MemoryPool.h](MemoryPool.h) & [MemoryPoolData.h](MemoryPoolData.h) files to your project. The memory pool structure is `CPPShift::Memory::MemoryPool`. ***The Memory Pool Is Not Thread Safe - In case of threads it is better to create a memory pool for each thread***
 
  * _Create a memory pool_: `CPPShift::Memory::MemoryPool * mp = new CPPShift::Memory::MemoryPool(size);` Create a new memory pool structure and a first memory block. If you don't specify a size then by default it will be the `MEMORYPOOL_DEFAULT_BLOCK_SIZE` macro.
- * _Allocate space_: `Type* allocated = new (mp) Type[size];` or `(Type*) mp->allocate(size * sizeof(Type));` or `mp->allocate<Type>(size);` Where `Type` is the object\primitive type to create, `mp` is the memory pool object address, and `size` is a represention of the amount of types to allocate.
+ * _Allocate space_: `Type* allocated = new (mp) Type[size];` or `Type* allocated = (Type*) mp->allocate(size * sizeof(Type));` or `Type* allocated = mp->allocate<Type>(size);` Where `Type` is the object\primitive type to create, `mp` is the memory pool object address, and `size` is a represention of the amount of types to allocate.
  * _Deallocate space_: `mp->free(allocated)` Remove an allocated space
- * _Reallocate space_: `Type* allocated = (Type*) mp->reallocate(allocated, size);` Rellocate a pre-allocated space, will copy the previous values to the new memory allocated.
+ * _Reallocate space_: `Type* allocated = mp->reallocate<Type>(allocated, size);` or `Type* allocated = (Type*) mp->reallocate(allocated, size);` Rellocate a pre-allocated space, will copy the previous values to the new memory allocated.
  * _Dump data of a memory pool_: `mp->dumpPoolData()` This function prints outs the data about the blocks and units in the pool.
 
 ## Memory scoping

test/CMakeLists.txt

@@ -6,4 +6,4 @@ set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 17)
 set(CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE Release)
 set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS  "${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS} -O2")
 
-add_executable(MemoryPool "main.cpp" "../MemoryPool.cpp" "String.cpp"   "STDString.h" "STDString.cpp")
+add_executable(MemoryPool "main.cpp" "../MemoryPool.cpp" "String.cpp" "STDString.h" "STDString.cpp")