Re: [boost] [container][stable_vector] What does reserve() do for stable_vector

Subject: Re: [boost] [container][stable_vector] What does reserve() do for stable_vector
From: Ion Gaztañaga (igaztanaga_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-04-19 05:16:21

El 19/04/2015 a las 10:06, Arindam Mukherjee escribió:
> Consider the following code.
>
> #include <string>
> #include <boost/container/stable_vector.hpp>
> #include <iostream>
>
> int main()
> {
>    boost::container::stable_vector<std::string> vec;
>    vec.reserve(10);
>    std::cout << "capacity = " << vec.capacity() << '\n';
> }
>
> On running this (on g++ and Linux), the output is:
>
> capacity = 4294967286  (that's 2^32 - 10)
>
> If replace boost::container::stable_vector with std::vector above, the
> output is:

It's clearly a bug. The surprising part is that it was introduced a long 
time ago.

I just received a a merged a pull request:

https://github.com/boostorg/container/pull/26

Thanks for reporting.

Ion