Re: [boost] Re: Extensible polymorphic pointer

From: Victor A. Wagner, Jr. (vawjr_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-08-09 13:37:51

At Wednesday 2002/08/07 14:02, you wrote:

>"Philippe A. Bouchard" <philippeb_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
>news:airm8o$u3k$1_at_main.gmane.org...
> > > More comments:
> > >
> > > Your code results in undefined behaviour, since it accesses vector
> > > elements that have not been constructed.  Even though the data type
> > > is POD, accessing vector[i] where i >= vector.size() is not legal C++.
> >
> > Why is it public then?  There's a flaw in their standards therefore.
>
>If I use resize() instead, will it shrink down the allocated block (exactly
>what I don't want) if the new size is smaller than the previous one?

from all the books I've read, resize() will NOT shrink a vector

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