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From: Jeff Flinn (TriumphSprint2000_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-09-03 09:05:33
David A. Greene wrote:
> Bo Persson wrote:
>> :: &a[0];
>> ::
>> :: The C++ community promotes std::vector as a C array replacement,
>> :: but
>> :: it's really not because it's not legal to do the above operation
>> :: when
>> :: the vector is empty.
>>
>> That's just a misuse of the std::vector. You never, ever get the idea
>> of taking the address of an empty array. Why attempt that on an empty
>> vector??
>>
>
> Dunno what you mean by "get the idea of taking the address," but this is
> a perfectly
> reasonable thing to do in C. In llvm, there are many interfaces that
> want, for
> example:
>
> foo(int *array, int num)
I think the crux of the issue is why "there are many interfaces" taking
raw pointers of any kind?
Jeff Flinn
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