Re: No boundschecking?
On 30 Jan., 20:56, mike3 <mike4...@yahoo.com> wrote:
On Jan 30, 10:09 am, Erik Wikstr=F6m <Erik-wikst...@telia.com> wrote:
On 2008-01-30 05:03, mike3 wrote:
Hi.
I just found out that the iterators used by std::vector<> are not
required to perform boundschecking, even as a debug mode! So then what=
do I do? I'd like to have it available as a debug, even if not in a
release version.
Use an implementation of the library that implements bounds-checking. In=
the latest version of VC++ they have quite a lot of it, they use
Dinkumware's libraries and I know some of (or all) of the checks are in
the version you can buy from Dinkumware.
But of course that's nonportable, meaning if one goes to a different
compiler with different libraries it may not happen. So is it really
a good idea to rely on it?
Of course it is! This is an aid in debugging, and if you suppose your
code to be portable, it should be fine to debug on one platform. Why
debug on more?
/Peter
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