Re: STL - Debug assertion failure, vector iterator not dereferenca
John <John@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
I tried the code you supplied and it worked but this brings up another
question what does one return when the vector is empty E_FAIL?
Why do you want to treat an empty collection specially? I'm not sure I
understand the question.
As for the other problem, as it turns out the vector is empty on that
statement. I am using recursion in this routine so I will need to
track down the bug. It's odd that these routines both used to work
before converting them to 2005.
The code exhibited undefined behavior. The program with such code is
allowed to do literally anything [1]. Lucky for you, STL in VC8 goes to
some great lengths to help you diagnose such problems.
[1] http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/N/nasal-demons.html
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