Re: using STL Container across the Files

From:
James Kanze <james.kanze@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:59:43 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
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On Aug 8, 8:58 pm, Pallav singh <singh.pal...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Aug 7, 12:58 pm, James Kanze <james.ka...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Aug 6, 11:18 am, Pallav singh <singh.pal...@gmail.com> wrote:

How can we use STL Contianer Across the Files
example
file1.cc
map<int,int> xyz;
file2.cc
extern map<int,int> xyz;
It gives Error.


What error? With what compiler? With the compilers I use, I
have no problems with:

file1.cc:
    #include <map>
    std::map< int, int > xyz ;

file2.cc
    #include <map>
    extern std::map< int, int > xzy ;

A bit of precaution may be necessary because of order of
initialization issues, but otherwise, there's no problem.


map1.cc

#include <iostream>
#include <map>
#include <iterator>

using namespace std;

class A
{
 public :
   int x;
   int y;

 void display()const
   { cout<<" Value of x " << x << endl ;
     cout<<" value of y " << y << endl ;}
};

struct compare
{
  bool operator()(const A & s1, const A & s2) const
     { return ((s1.x== s2.x) && (s1.y == s2.y)); }
};

std::map<A,int,compare> object;


This is illegal. It's undefined behavior, so it may not give
you an error, but compare is not a valid. To be valid, the
comparison function must "induce a strict weak ordering on the
values". In particular, for a comparison function comp, if we
define a function equiv( a, b ) as being ! comp( a, b ) && !
comp( b, a ), then equiv must define an equivalence
relationship; for example, equiv( a, b ) && equiv( b, c ) implies
equiv( a, c ).

object.insert(pair<A,int>(A(1,2), 2));
object.insert(pair<A,int>(A(3,4), 2));

map2.cc

#include <iostream>
#include <map>
#include <iterator>

using namespace std;

extern map<A,int,compare> object;


What's A and compare, here? I don't see any definition of them.

map<A,int,compare>::iterator iter;

int main()
{
   cout << "Map size: " << object.size() << endl;
   for( iter = object.begin(); iter != object.end(); ++iter )
          cout << (*iter).first << ": " << (*iter).second << endl;

   return 0;
}

g++ -g map2.cc map1.cc


i am getting compilation error's


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