Re: Best way to append std::list to itself
On 01/ 7/11 10:37 AM, Jorgen Grahn wrote:
On Thu, 2011-01-06, Paavo Helde wrote:
Jorgen Grahn<grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> wrote in
news:slrniic2f6.t7d.grahn+nntp@frailea.sa.invalid:
Did *you* test it? How?
#include<list>
#include<iostream>
int main()
{
std::list<int> foo;
foo.push_back(1);
foo.push_back(2);
foo.push_back(3);
foo.insert(foo.end(), foo.begin(), foo.end());
for(std::list<int>::const_iterator i = foo.begin();
i!=foo.end(); ++i) {
std::cout<< *i<< '\n';
}
return 0;
}
In what way am I wrong? I see no infinite loop. On my system this
prints 1 2 3 1 2 3 and that's also what I'd expect.
On my system this ate up some gigabytes of memory, then the whole system
hung. Seems like nasal demons to me ;-)
What is your system? Mine is Linux and gcc, AMD64 and ppc.
Interesting. Compiled with gcc, the code terminates with the 'expected'
output. With Sun CC, it loops forever.
I'm not saying you are mistaken or that your system has a bug; I just
want to know exactly what rule that code is violating. I found the
up-thread arguments unconvincing. (In particular, as you found out,
the suggestion "test it" was not helpful.)
The problem is probably how foo.end() is calculated.
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