Re: Some errors in MIT's intro C++ course
On 11 Sep., 23:03, Jorgen Grahn wrote:
On Sat, 2010-09-11, James Kanze wrote:
On Sep 10, 8:50 pm, Juha Nieminen wrote:
In which system does accessing a vector out of boundaries
"safely crash" for sure?
Windows, when using VC++. Linux (and all of the other
Unices), when using g++.
What did you do to the real James Kanze?
salix:/tmp% cat foo.cc
#include <vector>
#include <iostream>
int main()
{
int bar[] = { 3, 3, 1, 8, 2 };
std::vector<int> foo(bar, bar+5);
for(unsigned i=0; i<10; ++i) {
std::cout << foo[i] << '\n';
}
return 0;
}
salix:/tmp% g++ -W -Wextra -pedantic -std=c++98 -o foo foo.cc
salix:/tmp% ./foo =
3
3
1
8
2
0
135137
0
0
0
salix:/tmp%
Possibly I'm missing some context here, e.g. if you were talking about
special debug builds.
Maybe.
Although students should know what guarantees the C++ standard makes
and what is compiler-specific, I think they should also be familiar
with the compiler's documentation they are working with. This includes
a possible debug mode the implementation may offer.
http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/manual/debug_mode.html
Cheers!
SG
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