Re: member variable of STL string class
On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 02:20:01 -0700, George
<George@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
Here is the related data member I referred to,
union _Bxty
{
_Elem _Buf[_BUF_SIZE];
_Elem *_Ptr;
} _Bx;
Here is the conclusion I made and want you to comment and confirm.
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I think is _Buf is used to hold small sized content, and _Ptr is used to
hold larger sizes content. Small sized content is on stack and larger sized
content is on heap, correct?
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Not quite. The union _Bx is a member of the string and thus is stored
wherever the string object[*] itself is stored. If the string is an auto
object, the string will be on the stack. If the string was created with
new, the string will be on the heap. If the string has static storage
duration, the string will be wherever the compiler puts such objects.
However, the _Ptr member, when valid, will only ever point to a dynamically
allocated array, which will of course be on the heap.
[*] An object is a contiguous region of memory.
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