Re: [Boost-users] [BGL] Finding the descriptor for a given vertex

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [BGL] Finding the descriptor for a given vertex
From: Jens Müller (blog_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-01-04 20:22:02

Am 30.12.2011 11:27, schrieb Anders Wallin:
> As a comment to this: when I write algorithms that do a lot of
> modifications to a graph, a common reason for a segfault is accessing
> the
> bundled property (either vertex or edge) of a BGL-graph with an
> illegal vertex/edge-descriptor. It would be useful if in debug-mode,
> or perhaps
> a special "safe"-mode BGL would guard against this segfault and
> produce an assert() on  g[illegal_descriptor]

I wonder whether a special graph type might be sufficient/desired here?

E.g., one might want to never re-use descriptors of deleted 
vertices/edges even by mistake.

  -- Jens