Re: strange crash after assertion with std::map::iterator
"Mycroft Holmes" <m.holmes@nospam.it> wrote in message
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maybe I wasn't clear enough with the example.
The ORIGINAL code has a template type iterator_t and it tests -let's
say-
bool test_if_invalid(iterator_t i)
{
return i == iterator_t();
}
Well, now you know not to do that. There is no general way to test
whether an iterator is invalid, just as there is no general way to test
whether a pointer is invalid (consider dangling pointers). There is no
equivalent to a NULL for iterators - no special value that all iterators
take when left uninitialized. Change your design so that you don't
require such checks.
Why do you think you need this "feature"? What did you try to use the
comparison of two uninitialized iterators for?
exactly for the same reason you compare a pointer to 0... :)
The typical approach in STL is to use container.end() as a rough
equivalent of NULL for iterators over a given container. Iterators over
different containers are incomparable anyway, even when valid.
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