Does a std::set ever rebalance ?

From:
mathieu <mathieu.malaterre@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:43:23 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID:
<219f47cb-04a3-4d05-9d82-4e8930d7b3fa@i29g2000prf.googlegroups.com>
hi there,

  I would like to know if the following piece of code is garantee to
work. I am afraid that the cstring address I am using in the std::map
found from a request in std::set is not garantee to remain the same as
the std::set grows...

thanks
-Mathieu

#include <set>
#include <map>
#include <iostream>

struct FileValuePair {
  const char *filename;
  const char *value;
};

static FileValuePair MAPPINGS[] = {
  { "foo1.dat" , "value1" },
  { "foo2.dat" , "value2" },
  { "foo3.dat" , "value1" },
  { "foo4.dat" , "value3" },
  { "foo5.dat" , "value2" },
  { "foo6.dat" , "value3" },
  { NULL , NULL },
};

int main()
{
  FileValuePair *p = MAPPINGS;
  std::set< std::string > values;
  std::map< const char *, const char * > mappings;
  while(p->filename)
    {
    values.insert( p->value );
    // find back the address:
    const char *v = values.find( p->value )->c_str();
    mappings.insert(
     std::map<const char*,const char*>::value_type(p->filename, v));
    ++p;
    }

  std::map<const char*,const char*>::const_iterator it =
mappings.begin();
  for(; it != mappings.end(); ++it)
    {
    std::cout << it->first << " -> " << it->second << std::endl;
    }

  return 0;
}

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