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