9 Jun
2005
9 Jun
'05
8:21 a.m.
On Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:05 , 'Chris Cannam' <chris.cannam(a)ferventsoftware.com>
sent:
I was under the impression that there was bounds checking going on with
vectors. Is this not the case?
Jan
N Smethurst:
iterator in the gcc library had at some point changed from an actual pointer to a
wrapper class. Looking at the code, though, the wrapper is so thin that it
probably isn't an issue with optimization on.
Since a vector is a wrapped C array (i.e.
contigous), the [] operator
compiles to the C equivalent when optimisation is turned on.
I was thinking of iterator operations, having vaguely recalled that the vector