Re: Type cast problem with VC++ 2005 Express Edition

From:
"Igor Tandetnik" <itandetnik@mvps.org>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Tue, 1 Dec 2009 13:13:33 -0500
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aslan <aslanski2002@yahoo.com> wrote:

"Igor Tandetnik" <itandetnik@mvps.org>, iletisinde =FEunu yazd=FD,
news:ejWBQoqcKHA.4780@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
"aslan" <aslanski2002@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:%23obrfjqcKHA.1028@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...

It doesn't create any problem with the VC6 and runs OK. Yes it's
weird but believe it or not, memset doesn't write any random memory.

 
How do you determine that?
 
*** aslan *** Using debugger's memory window (I'm talking about
VC++6).


Well, this way you see that some memory is being written to. How do you =
know that this memory is actually properly allocated and owned by the =
vector object? After all, if you just take an uninitialized pointer and =
memset to it, then the memory window will show that the memory pointed =
to by this pointer is in fact initialized - but that doesn't make the =
program valid.
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