Re: compile error: new : cannot specify initializer for arrays

From:
"alex" <alex.shulgin@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++.moderated
Date:
Sat, 3 Feb 2007 15:58:07 CST
Message-ID:
<1170503130.808993.242810@m58g2000cwm.googlegroups.com>
On Feb 3, 1:01 am, wong_po...@yahoo.ca wrote:
[snip-a-lot]

The above program is a test program to test how to use vector instead
of array for my own project, so the setvalue and displayvalue function
is simplied for test purpose (they are actually functions from another
library which I cannot change).
I want to keep data_t defined as an array of unsigned char.
There is a compile error for the above program:
error: new : cannot specify initializer for arrays

How to fix this compile error?


Most probably you have to use another for-loop to initialize
individual elements of your array. Supposing what you are trying to
get is a "C-style array of size MAX_PROC which elements are
std::vector<data_t> each of size 10", this is done like this:

vector<data_t> v[MAX_PROC];
for (int i = 0; i < MAX_PROC; i++)
{
       v[i].resize(10);
}

Or you can incorporate the initialization into your 'setvalue'-loop:

vector<data_t> v[MAX_PROC];
for (int i = 0; i < MAX_PROC; i++)
{
       v[i].resize(10);
       setvalue(v[i][0]);
}

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Alex Shulgin

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