Re: STL container and stack frame size

From	ittium <ittium@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c++
Subject	Re: STL container and stack frame size
Date	2011-08-09 10:12 +0530
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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On 04-08-2011 PM 07:51, Juha Nieminen wrote:
> itt ium<ittium@gmail.com>  wrote:
>> if the vector is of big size, making a local variable will occupy lot
>> of stack space and may result in stack overflow.
>
>    Nope. There's a very simple way of seeing how much stack space an
> object takes, namely:
>
> void foo()
> {
>      std::vector<int>  v(10000);
>      std::cout<<  "v is taking "<<  sizeof(v)<<  " bytes of stack space.\n";
> }
>
>    Here it says "v is taking 12 bytes of stack space."
>
>    The rest is allocated on the heap.

This means, we really do not have any situation, where we should define 
STL containers with pointers. Container with normal variables are 
sufficient for most of the cases.

Ittium

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STL container and stack frame size itt ium <ittium@gmail.com> - 2011-08-04 03:13 -0700
  Re: STL container and stack frame size "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach:usenet@gmail.com> - 2011-08-04 12:19 +0200
  Re: STL container and stack frame size "Paul" <pchristor@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-08-04 13:14 +0100
    Re: STL container and stack frame size "Paul" <pchristor@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-08-05 21:34 +0100
  Re: STL container and stack frame size Juha Nieminen <nospam@thanks.invalid> - 2011-08-04 14:21 +0000
    Re: STL container and stack frame size ittium <ittium@gmail.com> - 2011-08-09 10:12 +0530
      Re: STL container and stack frame size Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-08-09 16:49 +1200
      Re: STL container and stack frame size Asger-P <junk@asger-p.dk> - 2011-08-09 09:25 +0200

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