Re: Is PGO (Profile Guided Optimization) incompatible with stl and /MD

From:
"John Carson" <jcarson_n_o_sp_am_@netspace.net.au>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Sat, 11 Nov 2006 13:57:48 +1100
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"Salt_Peter" <pj_hern@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Phil Borghesani wrote:

This code when built with default console options and Instrumented
with for Profile Guided Optimization will Abort with a forced error
from _invalid_parameter. If the code is built normaly (debug or
release) it is fine and if I switch to /MT then the problem goes
away. Switching my full application to /MT is NOT an option.

Phil

// CODE started with a default console application

#include "stdafx.h"
#include <string>
#include <iostream>

int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])
{
std::string ts("A");
ts.insert(ts.begin()+1,'b');
std::cout<<"the string is " << ts << ".";
return 0;
}


I'ld be rather uncomfortable with an implementation that allows
iterator + 1. In this case +1 happens to match the sizeof(element)
involved purely by coincidance.


Not true.

iterator + n

is entirely standard for random access iterators, which is the type of
iterator you get from a string. See section 24.1.5 of the Standard.

Consider the alternatives:

ts += 'b';
ts.push_back('b');
ts.insert(++ts.begin(),'b');


The last of these suffers from the same problem.

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