Re: No-fail guarantee for assignment to equally sized std::vector?
In article <461C066B.250ECB09@this.is.invalid>, Niels Dekker - no
return address <noreply@this.is.invalid> wrote:
Suppose you have two vectors of a built-in type, whose sizes are equal:
std::vector<double>::size_type n = 32767;
std::vector<double> v1(n);
std::vector<double> v2(n);
Is the assignment of one such vector to the other guaranteed to be
successful? Or is there a serious chance that this assignment will
throw a bad_alloc?
v1 = v2; // No-fail guarantee?
No but if an exception occurs then the assignment has no effect.
A good implimentation would check v1.capacity() <= v2.size() and
if so destruct elements of v1, set the vector to have v1,size()==v2,size
and copy into the already allocated array, but it is not required to do
so, only to see that the v1 is a copy of v2, and if an exception occurs
no change occurs in v1.
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