This can be used to erase all allocations made within the named memory
pool. The usual use case would be for arena allocators, which allocate
by advancing a pointer and never have to free the memory. There is no
tracking of individual allocations and everything is freed frequently,
by reseting the pointer, for example once per frame.
Since this is used in special-purpose allocators, there is no support
for discarding the memory of the default memory pool.
The windows.h header file defines the macro max. If the max macro is include
it will lead to name collisions with the std::numeric_limits<T>::max() function.
One solution is to define NOMINMAX before the inclusion of windows.h.
However, that might be a demanding task for a large codebase. Defining the
NOMINMAX as global define may also break previous code.
Another to solution to the problem is to wrap the numeric_limits function in
parenthesis to instruct the compiler to treat it as a function and not a macro.
This commit wraps the std::numeric_limits<T>::max() calls in the public
interfacing header files, with parenthesis.
