Re: vector<vector<double> > & segmentation fault

From:
Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Sun, 28 May 2006 12:03:14 +1200
Message-ID:
<4ds7m2F1bmqe0U2@individual.net>
utab wrote:

I> You should use resize or construct field_values with a known size,

otherwise there isn't a vector to push_back to.

Ian


Thx,

But still did not understand, could you please give an example why this
is not possible?
Regards,


Consider

std::vector<Something> vec;

vec[0].doSomthing();

Which is pretty much what you have, with Something being a
vector<double> and doSomthing() being push_back().

Constructing a vector without a size does not initialise anything, it
might preallocate some memory, but that's it.

If you construct a vector with a size, size elements are default
constructed, giving you a vector of size default objects to use.

Same with resize (but not reserve).

You could have written:

for(sz=0;sz!=SIZE;++sz)
{
  field_values.push_back(vector<double>());
  field_values[sz].push_back(d);
}

Or

vector<vector<double> > field_values;
vector<vector<double> >::size_type SIZE=3;
vector<vector<double> >::size_type sz(SIZE);

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