Re: [boost] Demangler: exit iterators, back string demangle(char const*)

From: Carlo Wood (carlo_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-09-05 11:57:29

On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 09:51:46AM +0100, Anthony Williams wrote:
> Carlo Wood writes:
>  > Also, the input iterator cannot be used because the code
>  > makes use of pointers into it at arbitrary places.  Using
>  > an input iterator would only be possible if we'd first copy
>  > the whole input to a temporal string - and that makes no sense.
> 
> You could specify that only forward iterators were supported.

Yes, but such iterators would in practise just be wrappers
around a char const*, and then we need a wrapper function
to pass these iterators to the general interface because
we almost always start with a typeid().name() (a char const*)!

Since the input has nothing to do with allocation, lets
just use char const* as input to begin with (for the most
general interface).

-- 
Carlo Wood <carlo_at_[hidden]>