Re: std::vector help!!
In message <1151525031.562658.232860@p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com>, Yong
Hu <yhu221300@gmail.com> writes
Richard Herring wrote:
In message <OhUng.256726$Fs1.5467@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>,
Howard <alicebt@hotmail.com> writes
"Victor Bazarov" <v.Abazarov@comAcast.net> wrote in message
news:e7oo0b$pem$1@news.datemas.de...
vikram_p_nayak@yahoo.com wrote:
linux_bp wrote:
I have an stl vector array which stores the pointers to objects.
To delete the array i am using:
std::vector<*foo> bar;
...
for (vector<*foo>::iterator itr = bar.begin(); itr != bar.end(); )
{
delete itr;
itr = NULL;
}
Shouldnt this be
delete (*itr);
?
I guess you are deleting the objects being referred to by the vector
elements. Maybe I am wrong.
It's really hard to conclude anything (although you're probably right)
since the code presented is not real code. For example, 'vector<*foo>'
is a definite syntax error.
Not to mention the fact that such a loop would loop forever, since itr is
set to NULL on the first iteration,
And that line will probably only compile at all if vector<T>::iterator
happens to be implemented as T*, which is not necessarily the case.
The vector<T>::iterator is a type defined as T* for sure.
Not "for sure" at all. See the other replies.
This is how the iterator is defined in vector:
In one particular library implementation.
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