On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 11:30:26PM +0100, Alfredo Braunstein wrote: > Actually, Lars, I have a (general) question related to this. What > assumptions can be done for old iterators after modifications on the > container? Does this depend on the particular container (and/or > implementation)
Yes. std::vector<> eg. invalidates almost everytime, whereas std::list<> rarely does. > For instance, I think that a list iterator is pretty 'stable', i.e. it will > remain valid and pointing to the same element if I add or remove other > elements on the list. > OTOH, on a vector, this is not true (an iterator point to different > --posible invalid-- elements after insert/removal of other elements) > Is the stl explicit about this? The stl is not the one to tell. It's the C++ Standard (ISO 14882/1998) and it is very explicit about this kind of stuff. Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)
