Re: std::vector of const values

From:
shahav <shahav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++.moderated
Date:
Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:07:14 CST
Message-ID:
<52189b82-548a-4515-9c13-a4b169334758@r5g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>
On Nov 22, 6:52 am, Dave <thedaverud...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi all,

I have run into this problem a few times and was hoping there was a
more elegant solution than what I was doing. Suppose I have the
following code:

#include <vector>
#include <iostream>

void doStuff( const std::vector< const int* >& ints )
{
     for( size_t i = 0; i != ints.size(); ++i )
     std::cout << *ints[ i ] << std::endl;

}

int main()
{
     int i1, i2, i3;
     std::vector< int* > ints;
     ints.push_back( &i1 );
     ints.push_back( &i2 );
     ints.push_back( &i3 );
     doStuff( ints );
     return 0;

}

Now, if I try to compile this (with gcc 4.3.2, though I get similar
problems with MSVC++ 2003), I get the following error:


you should simply add one missing const :
int main()
{
  int i1, i2, i3;
  std::vector< const int* > ints; // note to the const before int
  ints.push_back( &i1 );
  ints.push_back( &i2 );
  ints.push_back( &i3 );
  doStuff( ints );
  return 0;

}

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