Re: Initializing of vector<const string> fails - gcc bug?

From:
Barry Schwarz <schwarzb@dqel.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++.moderated
Date:
Wed, 4 Dec 2013 13:59:11 CST
Message-ID:
<0uru99das1mfkjlc44c0l3jsom1clu6cku@4ax.com>
The problem appears to be that vector does not have a constructor that
accepts a const type.

Can you change it to
     const std::vector<string> ...
or will you be adding more elements to the vector later?

On Wed, 4 Dec 2013 07:07:04 CST, Helmut Jarausch
<jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:

Hi,

I cannot initialize a vector of const string elements with gcc-4.8.2

-std=c++11

The example below will be compiled if 'const string' is replaced by

'string'.

Is this a gcc bug or a restriction of the C++11 standard?

Many thanks for a hint,
Helmut

#include <string>
using std::string;

#include <vector>

int main() { // compiled with std=c++11 using gcc-4.8.2

 std::vector<const string> Labels= {"A","B"};
}

/* I have removed '/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.8.2/include'
   at the beginning of the error messages below
In file included
from x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bits/c++allocator.h:33:0,
from bits/allocator.h:46,
from string:41,
from Vector_init_const_string.C:1:
ext/new_allocator.h: In instantiation of
'struct __gnu_cxx::new_allocator<const std::basic_string<char> >':
...
Vector_init_const_string.C:8:29:
  required from here
ext/new_allocator.h:93:7: error:
 'const _Tp* __gnu_cxx::new_allocator<_Tp>::
  address(__gnu_cxx::new_allocator<_Tp>::const_reference) const
     [with _Tp = const std::basic_string<char>;
     __gnu_cxx::new_allocator<_Tp>::const_pointer
     = const std::basic_string<char>*;

__gnu_cxx::new_allocator<_Tp>::const_reference

     = const std::basic_string<char>&]' cannot be overloaded
      address(const_reference __x) const _GLIBCXX_NOEXCEPT

ext/new_allocator.h:89:7: error:
 with '_Tp*

__gnu_cxx::new_allocator<_Tp>::address(__gnu_cxx::new_allocator<_Tp>::refere
nce)

       const [with _Tp = const std::basic_string<char>;

__gnu_cxx::new_allocator<_Tp>::pointer

       = const std::basic_string<char>*;

__gnu_cxx::new_allocator<_Tp>::reference = const std::basic_string<char>&]'

      address(reference __x) const _GLIBCXX_NOEXCEPT

ext/new_allocator.h: In instantiation of
 'void

__gnu_cxx::new_allocator<_Tp>::deallocate(__gnu_cxx::new_allocator<_Tp>::poi
nter,

  __gnu_cxx::new_allocator<_Tp>::size_type)
     [with _Tp = const std::basic_string<char>;
   __gnu_cxx::new_allocator<_Tp>::pointer
    = const std::basic_string<char>*;
    __gnu_cxx::new_allocator<_Tp>::size_type = long unsigned int]':
...
Vector_init_const_string.C:8:45: required from here
ext/new_allocator.h:110:30: error: invalid conversion from 'const void*' to

'void*' [-fpermissive]

      { ::operator delete(__p); }

In file included
from ext/new_allocator.h:33:0,
...
from string:41,
from Vector_init_const_string.C:1:
new:95:6: error: initializing argument 1 of 'void operator delete(void*)'

[-fpermissive]

void operator delete(void*) _GLIBCXX_USE_NOEXCEPT

In file included
 from vector:62:0,
 from Vector_init_const_string.C:4:
...
Vector_init_const_string.C:8:45: required from here

bits/stl_construct.h:75:7: error:
 invalid static_cast from type 'const std::basic_string<char>*' to type

'void*'

    { ::new(static_cast<void*>(__p)) _T1(std::forward<_Args>(__args)...);

}

*/


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