Re: priority_queue predicate

From:
Pete Becker <pete@versatilecoding.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Fri, 3 Oct 2008 15:14:19 -0400
Message-ID:
<2008100315141916807-pete@versatilecodingcom>
On 2008-10-03 13:33:55 -0400, thomas <FreshThomas@gmail.com> said:

On Oct 4, 1:31??am, thomas <FreshTho...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Oct 4, 12:44??am, Pete Becker <p...@versatilecoding.com> wrote:

On 2008-10-03 12:41:16 -0400, Pete Becker <p...@versatilecoding.com> sa

id:

On 2008-10-03 12:05:38 -0400, thomas <FreshTho...@gmail.com> said:

priority_queue usually uses the greater<int> predicate function.

But as you know, we don't always use priority_queue<int>. Actually w

e

may need the "priority_queue<pair<int,int>, vector<pair<int,int> >,
cmp> hp;" thing.

My question is how should I write the "cmp" function?


It depends on what you want it to do.

I tried this one:

bool cmp(pair<int,int> &x, pair<int,int> &y){
?? ?? return x.second < y.second;
}

but it doesn't work while it usually makes sense for "sort" predicat

e.

It should work just fine, if you want your elements sorted by their
second field. If that's not what you want, then you need a different
comparison function.


However, it should probably take its arguments by const reference or by
value. But since you haven't posted real code, nor provided any details
about what "doesn't work" means, it's not possible to tell what, if
anything, is wrong.

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-------code-----
#include<iostream>
#include<vector>
#include<map>
#include<set>
#include<cstdlib>
#include<cmath>
#include<list>
#include<stack>
#include<queue>

using namespace std;

bool cmp(const pair<PII,int> &x, const pair<PII,int> &y){
?? ?? ?? ?? return x.second < y.second;}

priority_queue<pair<PII, int>, vector<pair<PII,int> >, cmp>
heap; ?? //pair<pair<node I, node j>, weight>

int main(){

}

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for simplicity, you can compile the code above.
I'm using vc8, and got the errors:
----------------------
------ Build started: Project: pku, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------
Compiling...
a.cpp
..\a.cpp(14) : error C2065: 'PII' : undeclared identifier
..\a.cpp(17) : error C3203: 'pair' : unspecialized class template
can't be used as a template argument for template parameter '_Ty',
expected a real type
..\a.cpp(17) : error C3203: 'pair' : unspecialized class template
can't be used as a template argument for template parameter '_Ty',
expected a real type
..\a.cpp(17) : error C2923: 'std::priority_queue' : 'cmp' is not a
valid template type argument for parameter '_Pr'
?? ?? ?? ?? ..\a.cpp(14) : see declaration of 'cmp'
..\a.cpp(17) : error C2133: 'heap' : unknown size
..\a.cpp(17) : error C2512: 'std::priority_queue' : no appropriate
default constructor available
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-------------code-----------
#include<iostream>
#include<vector>
#include<map>
#include<set>
#include<cstdlib>
#include<cmath>
#include<list>
#include<stack>
#include<queue>

using namespace std;

#define PII pair<int,int>

bool cmp(const pair<PII,int> &x, const pair<PII,int> &y){
    return x.second < y.second;
}
priority_queue<pair<PII, int>, vector<pair<PII,int> >, cmp>
heap; //pair<pair<node I, node j>, weight>

int main(){

}
---------------
this one in case you don't know what PII is.


Presumably the result of compiling this code was different from the
result shown in the previous message.

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