Using STL collections in Photoshop plug-ins

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Hello!<br /><br />Would you explain one moment. I need use a lot of STL collections in my Photoshop plug-in.<br /><br />First, I try to write something like<br />---------------------------------------------------------------------<br />#include <map><br />#include <string><br /><br />...<br /><br />  map<int,string> foo;  // BANG!<br />---------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />Next, I try to use Photoshop Basic Suite:<br /><br />---------------------------------------------------------------------<br />#include <algorithm><br /><br />namespace std {}<br />using namespace std;<br /><br />#include <PIFormat.h><br /><br />extern SPBasicSuite     *g_sSPBasic;<br /><br />inline void * operator new ( const size_t size )<br />{<br />     void *result = 0;<br /><br />     if( 0 != g_sSPBasic )<br />     {<br />          void     *temp;<br /><br />          if( g_sSPBasic->AllocateBlock( size, &result ) )<br />          {<br />               result = 0;<br />          }<br />          else<br />          {<br />#ifdef     DEBUG<br />               char     *tmp = static_cast<char*>( result );<br />               fill( tmp, tmp + size, 0xEB );<br />#endif<br />          }<br />     }<br /><br />     return     result;<br />}<br /><br />inline void operator delete ( void * ptr )<br />{<br />     if( 0 != g_sSPBasic )<br />     {<br />          g_sSPBasic->FreeBlock( ptr );<br />     }<br />}<br /><br />//  the same for operator new[] and operator delete[]<br />---------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />Now simple STL collections can be created.<br /><br />Is there more laconic way to create STL collections?<br /><br />Moreover. This code is very dirty. For example, I even don't sure that Simple Suite address is constant between calls of plug-in entry point. So I think this is an awful dangerous code (just imagine the effect of two copies of of Adobe Photoshop using plug-in using this operators simultaneously).<br /><br />Do you have some ideas how to make it clean and working?

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On dynamic C++ memory management in Adobe Photoshop plug-in
As there are some people interested in the question I'll try to explain a technique I use at present.
I have two memory allocators:
a) based on Adobe's Basic Suite for small blocks (under 2Kbytes)
b) based on Adobe's Handle Suite for large blocks (above 2Kbytes)
operator new and operator new[] allocate 4 additional bytes for every allocation, store in the first 4 bytes handle to memory allocator used for this new or new[] call, and return pointer after this handle.
operator delete and operator delete[] takes memory allocator handle from the pre-pointer 4 bytes, and dellocate memory using correct memory allocator.
This strategy works well.
Does anybody know a better dynamic memory management technique to use with Adobe SDK for Adobe Photoshop plug-ins?