Re: fortran array and std::vector<T>
sebastian sauer wrote:
hi,
1st i read josuttis' STL book. then i knew std::vector<T> is de-facto
guaranteed to be contiguous and this will be in the nxt revision of the
standard. all good. all fine.
Your information is outdated: std::vector<T> already is required to be
contiguous (since 2003).
[23.2.4/1]
... The elements of a vector are stored contiguously, meaning that if v is
a vector<T, Allocator> where T is some type other than bool, then it obeys
the identity &v[n] == &v[0] + n for all 0 <= n < v.size().
[snip]
my case: a C++ std::vector<T> that is also accessed by a fortran
subroutine as an array.
my question: how shall i do it? what is morale? what is legal? and what is
practical?
void g()
{
std::vector<Foo> v;
...
f(v.begin(), v.size()); // this is what i cannot do i figure
right: std::vector<Foo>::iterator is not necessarily Foo*.
f(&v[0], v.size()); // this is the yuk-dirty way i came up with
this is fine and blessed by the standard unless Foo is bool.
}
[snip]
Best
Kai-Uwe Bux
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