Re: Help migrating hash_set to c++0x

From:
Howard Hinnant <howard.hinnant@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Tue, 21 Dec 2010 08:05:10 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID:
<d94ddce4-eebe-41e7-95ea-6754ba05ee81@w17g2000yqh.googlegroups.com>
On Dec 20, 11:25 pm, Paulo da Silva
<psdasilva.nos...@netcabonospam.pt> wrote:

Em 21-12-2010 03:37, Paulo da Silva escreveu:

Em 20-12-2010 22:59, Paulo da Silva escreveu:

I just saw (wikipedia for example) that unordered_set should implement
the same behaviour as that of hash_set. Neverthless it is not working i=

n

this code!

#include <memory>
#include <unordered_set>
#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

class Foo
{public:
   string s;
   Foo(char const * const sc): s(sc) {}
};

class eqf
{public:
   inline bool operator()(Foo const &s1,Foo const &s2) const
   { return (s1.s==s2.s);
   }
};

class hf
{public:
   inline size_t operator()(Foo const &x) const
   { return hash<char const *>()(x.s.c_str());
   }
};

// typedef __gnu_cxx::hash_set<Foo,hf,eqf> MSet;
typedef unordered_set<Foo,hf,eqf> MSet;

int main()
{ MSet mc;
   pair<MSet::iterator,bool> r;
   r=mc.insert(Foo("xxxx"));
   // OK expected and obtained
   cout << "xxxx " << (r.second?"OK":"BAD") << endl;
   mc.insert(Foo("zzzz"));
   // Does not allow duplicates ...
   r=mc.insert(Foo("zzzz"));
   // BAD (duplicate) expected but OK obtained
   cout << "zzzz " << (r.second?"OK":"BAD") << endl;
   MSet::const_iterator it=mc.find(Foo("xxxx"));
   for (it=mc.begin();it!=mc.end();++it)
           cout << it->s << endl;
   return 0;
}

Anything wrong? Better way to implement?
Thanks for any comments.


Replacing class hf with this works.
class hf
{public:
        inline size_t operator()(Foo const &s) const
        { return hash<string const &>()(s.s);
        }

};

I still don't understand why the previous example stopped to work!


I suspect it was a change in the behavior of the hash<char const*>
function. In C++0x std::hash<char const*> simply hashes the pointer,
not a null terminated string. Therefore using std::hash<char const*>
combined with your eqf would give you the situation that two Foo's
could compare equal but hash to different buckets. This is a
situation that will essentially corrupt your container. Your fix
(using hash<string const &>) is correct.

-Howard

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