std::vector<T>::insert()

From:
brenthwalker@googlemail.com
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Date:
Fri, 12 Oct 2012 13:29:53 CST
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I would like to know if the code below is considered legal. VS10
produces garbage as the first element in the output. What I think is
happening is that v[0] is passed by ref into insert() and since
capacity() == size() the vector is realloced and moved some place else
and the old destroyed BEFORE the value in v[0] is actually fetched.
So we end up reading some random value and then copy it in the new
vector.

So maybe the bug is in Microsoft's stl. Or the bug is in my
code... i.e., doing:

     v.insert( v.begin(), v[0] );

is considered illegal.

Which is it?

Thanks for any help,
Brent

int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])
{
     std::vector<double> v;
     v.reserve( 10 );
     for ( size_t i = 1; i <= 10; ++i )
         v.push_back( i );

     v.insert( v.begin(), v[0] );

     for ( size_t i = 0; i < v.size(); ++i )
         std::cout << v[i] << std::endl;

    return 0;
}

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