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Re: C Containers Library vs STL

From Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com>
Subject Re: C Containers Library vs STL
Date 2011-08-04 21:40 +0100
Message-Id <pan.2011.08.04.20.40.53.379000@nowhere.com>
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On Thu, 04 Aug 2011 16:25:19 +0200, jacob navia wrote:

> In the C containers library the container ALWAYS owns the memory used
> by the objects/keys. This means the given buffers are always copied
> when you add an item.
> 
> What is the behavior in C++, it is different?

No. But if you have a container which contains pointers, it
literally contains the pointers, not the data which they point to. E.g.
std::vector<char*>::push_back() will just add the supplied pointer, it
won't perform a strdup() (char* doesn't necessarily imply a NUL-terminated
string).

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C Containers Library vs STL jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2011-08-03 22:40 +0200
  Re: C Containers Library vs STL Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-08-04 09:13 +1200
    Re: C Containers Library vs STL Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2011-08-03 17:36 -0500
      Re: C Containers Library vs STL Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2011-08-03 17:38 -0500
        Re: C Containers Library vs STL jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2011-08-04 01:30 +0200
          Re: C Containers Library vs STL Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2011-08-03 18:40 -0500
            Re: C Containers Library vs STL jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2011-08-04 13:42 +0200
          Re: C Containers Library vs STL Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-08-04 12:34 +1200
            Re: C Containers Library vs STL Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-08-04 13:38 +1200
              Re: C Containers Library vs STL Juha Nieminen <nospam@thanks.invalid> - 2011-08-04 07:02 +0000
                Re: C Containers Library vs STL Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-08-04 19:40 +1200
                Re: C Containers Library vs STL Juha Nieminen <nospam@thanks.invalid> - 2011-08-04 14:16 +0000
                Re: C Containers Library vs STL jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2011-08-04 16:25 +0200
                Re: C Containers Library vs STL Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2011-08-04 21:40 +0100
            Re: C Containers Library vs STL jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2011-08-04 09:42 +0200
              Re: C Containers Library vs STL Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-08-04 19:59 +1200
              Re: C Containers Library vs STL Marc <marc.glisse@gmail.com> - 2011-08-04 12:47 +0000
                Re: C Containers Library vs STL jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2011-08-04 15:17 +0200

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