Re: "vector" compile error in VC2005

From:
"Alex Blekhman" <xfkt@oohay.moc>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.stl
Date:
Sun, 10 Dec 2006 12:04:57 +0200
Message-ID:
<eyctnKEHHHA.1240@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl>
"pango" wrote:

I'm a new user for VS2005,and before I use VC++6 ,below
code can be compiled
by VC6,but it can not be compiled by VC2005:
vector<int> v;
for(int * p = v.begin();p!=v.end();p++);

From some doc I know from VS2003 ,compiler does not treat
vector::begin()
return type as ptr,so I must rewrite my code lick this:
vector<int> v;
for(vector<int>::iterator p = v.begin();p!=v.end();p++);

My God,I had use VC6 for 4-5 years,and I hadn't used
VS2003,so I didn't know
this update,but in my many project I had written the
code that treat
vector::begin() return type is ptr,and I also use the
return value of begin()
as a ptr to array,but I found the code would be crashed
if it was compiled
by VC2005.

It is big trouble for me,I like the new VC2005's IDE,but
if I have to
rewrite all my code to fit new STL lib,the cost is too
high.So is there a
middle course to solve my problem?(If there is not,I
think I had to still
use my old VC6)


There is no middle course for that. Treating iterators as
pointers worked in VC6 by accident. It's not guaranteed by
the Standard that it should work that way.

Alex

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