Re: libstc++-v3 vector not convertible to pointer

[Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at codesourcery dot com>]

nbecker@fred.net writes:

[...]

|     Gabriel> If you want to access the address of the first element, then just say
|  
|     Gabriel> 	&in[0]
| 
|     Gabriel> as you would have, were `in' a C-like array.
| 
| I want to interoperate with existing C libraries that expect a
| pointer.  High performance computing requires this (at least for
| now).  My point is not that there is anything wrong with libstdc++.
| For high performance we need a different vector-like container that
| does interoperate with C.

I understand your need.  The syntax above should cuure your problem.

| Are there any other STL-compatible containers that have the required
| properties?

Not STL, but valarray<T> meets the contiguous memory requirement.  But
as I said in another message, in practice vector<T> will do and by the
next TC it should.

-- Gaby
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