Re: CString Array to LPCTSTR *

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Doug,
Refer Stroustrup's book where he shows one type of implementation
of string where he has a diagram with segment descriptors and each of the
entries in the descriptor table points to segments of string.

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"Doug Harrison [MVP]" <dsh@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 23:34:43 -0400, David Wilkinson
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wrote:

I believe that std::vector is guaranteed to be stored in contiguous
memory, which std::string is not.

Correct for vector, and for practical purposes, std::string is contiguous
as well. At least I've never heard of a non-contiguous std::string, and I
think someone would have to be insane to write one. If you care about the
lack of a guarantee, then you should also remember that std::string may or
may not be reference-counted, data() and c_str() may or may not throw, and
there are probably a couple of other implementation choices I'm
forgetting.
That said, every std::string I've seen has been contiguous, and data() and
c_str() cannot throw. The trend has been to abandon the hopeless form of
reference-counting permitted by the standard, and VC gave it up in version
2002. So I'd say there's a sort of de facto sane implementation that
implementers have adopted.

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Doug Harrison
Visual C++ MVP


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