[boost] Re: shared_array: how to get the number of elements in it?

From: Tom Widmer (tom_usenet_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-03-01 09:07:49

On Mon, 01 Mar 2004 13:32:12 +0100, Roland Richter
<roland_at_[hidden]> wrote:

>Boosters,
>
>  I want to write a function which compares two shared_array's
>  element-wise (operator==() compares for pointer equality).
>
>  How to get the number of elements a given shared_array contains?
>  At first glance there seems to be no possibility; am I missing
>  something?

You can't do it (just as with ordinary pointers), at least not without
resorting to platform specific hacks. You probably want std::vector.

Tom
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