Re: std::vector anomally
John Keenan schrieb:
I have stumbled across an interesting anomally (well... I find it
interesting). In VS8 the following gives a compiler error that method
Xxx::readOnly is attempting to return a reference to a local value (see
"problem here" below).
class Xxx{
private:
std::vector< bool >* _readOnly;
public:
Xxx();
virtual ~Xxx();
const bool& readOnly( const unsigned int& i_ ) const;
};
Xxx::Xxx(){ _readOnly = new std::vector< bool >; }
Xxx::~Xxx(){ delete _readOnly; };
const bool&
Xxx::readOnly( const unsigned int& i_ ) const{
return _readOnly->at( i_ ); // problem here.
};
If I change the three occurances of bool to double or std::string the
problem disappears. When I move it to VS6 the problem with bool does not
occur. Is there something about bool that would cause std::vector::at to not
return a referenced? Is there some project and/or solution setting that I
may have changed that would cause this anomally with bool?
Yes, there is something different about the bool vector.
The std C++ library provides a template specialization for vector<bool> that
allows implementors to pack the bool values into a bit array to make a compact
array. Since you can not create a reference or a pointer to a single bit,
vector<bool>::at() does not return a bool reference.
Visual Studio provides a nested vector<bool>::reference class that provides
references to the bool values of vector<bool>.
See http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/t0723a54(VS.80).aspx
and http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/t248k97e(VS.80).aspx
Norbert
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