Re: string's class question

From:
"Bo Persson" <bop@gmb.dk>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Sat, 10 Sep 2011 08:31:56 +0200
Message-ID:
<9d0ekoFkjfU1@mid.individual.net>
Nephi Immortal wrote:

I was curious to examine Microsoft?s source code. The headers are
string, xmemory, and xutility. I could see container class and
proxy class. They inherit into _String_val and _String_val
inherits into basic_string.
Why are several classes needed? Why not create single basic_string
class? Look at Microsoft?s code here.

struct _Container_base12;
struct _Iterator_base12;

// CLASS _Container_proxy
struct _Container_proxy
{ // store head of iterator chain and back pointer
_Container_proxy()

_Mycont(0), _Myfirstiter(0)

{ // construct from pointers
}

const _Container_base12 *_Mycont;
_Iterator_base12 *_Myfirstiter;
};


That looks like code used for iterator debugging in debug mode.
Putting it in a base class perhaps help sharing this code with other
containers?

Anyway, this is just an implementation detail that doesn't matter
much. A library is allowed to organize the code the way it wants to.

Bo Persson

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