Re: about stl map class

From:
"Alf P. Steinbach" <alfps@start.no>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Wed, 20 May 2009 04:01:37 +0200
Message-ID:
<guvods$s7e$1@news.eternal-september.org>
* blackbiscuit:

On 5?19?, ??1?00?, Neelesh <neelesh.bo...@gmail.com> wrote:

Whether all string literals are distinct or not is implementation
dependent. Which effectively means that
int main()
{
   const char* p = "June";
   const char* q = "June";
   bool eq = p == q;

}

Whether "eq" is true or false is implementation dependent. so in the
current case whether map[p] will be same as map["June"] is
implementation dependent. Not just that, even the output of following

* blackbiscuit:

code is implementation dependent

#include <map>
#include <iostream>
int main()
{
   std::map<const char*, int> m;
   m["June"] = 5;
   std::cout << m["June"] << std::endl; //Is the string literal
"June" on this line same as string literal "June" on the previous
line? Implementation dependent.

}


So it means to use map in that way is quite dangerous. Is there any
general way to avoid that problem?


Use e.g. std::string as key.

Cheers & hth.,

- Alf

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