[linux-audio-dev] [ot] [rant] gcc, you let me down one time toomany

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On Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:05 , 'Chris Cannam' <chris.cannam at ferventsoftware.com> sent:

>N Smethurst:
>> 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
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.
>
>

    I was under the impression that there was bounds checking going on with
vectors.  Is this not the case?

Jan