Re: Wrong
Alf P. Steinbach <alfps@start.no> wrote:
* Juha Nieminen:
Alf P. Steinbach <alfps@start.no> wrote:
If by wrong, you mean undefined behavior, then yes. The push_back is
fine, but the next line writes to an area which has been reserved but
not in the size. I know of several debug implementations of the
standard library which will crash horribly and report the error of the
code.
Example?
MS Visual C++, when compiling in debug mode.
gcc when using the _GLIBCXX_DEBUG preprocessor macro.
Would you care to present a complete little example, with actual result?
Ok, you got me. I was thinking about actually indexing the vector past
its size, but the original code actually takes a raw pointer to the first
element and then uses pointer arithmetic to get past the size. Those
compilers I mentioned won't catch that as any kind of error, even in debug
mode.
Ok, I can't see why the given example code would misbehave (when using
basic types) in any system with any compiler with any compiler settings.
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