Re: "vector" compile error in VC2005
"Ulrich Eckhardt" <eckhardt@satorlaser.com> wrote in message
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Tom Widmer [VC++ MVP] wrote:
P.J. Plauger wrote:
Basically true, but there is a kind of middle course. You can
write stuff like:
for (int *p = &*v.begin(); p != &*v.end(); p++)
and it will work with both V6 and V8. It's even conforming
code.
What, dereferencing an end iterator is conforming? Won't it blow up in
iterator debugging mode?
It will blow up.
Not in general, because &* doesn't require a memory access. It's
a rare compiler that'll complain about producing a pointer that
turns out not to be dereferencable. Admittedly, newer C++ libraries,
like ours, will cough on any *end() or on a *begin() for an empty
vector; but I doubt the OP is in the market for *additional*
checking when he wants the freewheeling behavior of the old days.
But yes, I do rescind my remark about the code being conforming.
Don't you really need something like:
for (int *p = &*v.begin(); p != &*v.begin() + v.size(); p++)
Almost, dereferencing begin() is also invalid when begin()==end()...
[x] vote for fixing the code
Second the motion.
P.J. Plauger
Dinkumware, Ltd.
http://www.dinkumware.com
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