Re: data corruption on pointer cast

From:
 gara.matt@gmail.com
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Mon, 16 Jul 2007 23:42:32 -0700
Message-ID:
<1184654552.194314.270970@i13g2000prf.googlegroups.com>
On Jul 16, 4:32 pm, Robert Bauck Hamar <roberth+n...@ifi.uio.no>
wrote:

Old Wolf wrote:

On Jul 16, 5:56 pm, gara.m...@gmail.com wrote:

Heyllo,

template<class T>
class Element
{
public:
        virtual int operator == (T) = 0;
        virtual int hash() = 0;
};

        int exists(Element<T> * elem)
        {
                int h = elem->hash()%M;
                for (int i=0; i < size_t[h]; i++)


This is a syntax error -- size_t is a keyword,


No, it's not. From the standard's point of view, it's a defined type from
the standard library. <cstddef>, <cstdio>, <cstring> and <ctime> should all
define std::size_t, and thus, their .h version puts size_t in the global
namespace. As std::size_t is a typedef from the C libraries, ::size_t is
also a reserved name. But it's not a keyword; maybe you're thinking of
wchar_t?

you can't apply array indexing to it


Though a poorly chosen name, it is legal. Size_t is a data member of the
class.

--
rbh


Well it seems my previous message was not posted or deleted somehow...
annoying. I'll retype it again later :(

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