Re: Best way to append std::list to itself

From:
Paavo Helde <myfirstname@osa.pri.ee>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Thu, 06 Jan 2011 19:39:52 -0600
Message-ID:
<Xns9E66254713DDFmyfirstnameosapriee@216.196.109.131>
Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> wrote in
news:slrniicdhh.t7d.grahn+nntp@frailea.sa.invalid:

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.


MSVC++2010 64-bit and 32-bit on Windows 7 x64.

Cheers
Paavo

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