Re: Exception safety: how to assign std::string when strong guarantee is needed?

From:
Alberto Ganesh Barbati <AlbertoBarbati@libero.it>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++.moderated
Date:
Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:40:42 CST
Message-ID:
<E_Hpi.73714$%k.213689@twister2.libero.it>
Niels Dekker - no return address ha scritto:

How would you assign one std::string to another, when you need to have
the "strong guarantee", with respect to exception safety?

It seems to me that the following five attempts only offer the basic
guarantee:

void Foo( const std::string & string1, std::string & string2 ) {

  // Attempt 1. operator=
  string2 = string1;

  // Attempt 2. Copy-and-swap.
  std::string(string1).swap(string2);

  // Attempt 3. Copy-and-swap (non-member).
  std::string temp(string1);
  swap(string2, temp);

  // Attempt 4. assign.
  string2.assign(string1);

  // Attempt 5. assign iterator-range.
  string2.assign(string1.begin(), string1.end());
}


Pardon my ignorance, but I don't see why you are saying that case 2 and
3 are not providing the strong guarantee. Could you please elaborate?

Ganesh

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