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Re: misleading description in vec.h?
Liang Wang <netcasper@gmail.com> writes:
> Here is comment from line 36, gcc/vec.h
>
> Both the structure object and pointer variants
> pass pointers to objects around -- in the former case the pointers
> are stored into the vector and in the latter case the pointers are
> dereferenced and the objects copied into the vector.
>
> But by reading implementation, it seems that this description is reverse.
> I think that it should be something like
>
> in the *latter* case the pointers
> are stored into the vector and in the *former* case the pointers are
> dereferenced and the objects copied into the vector.
>
> That is, the pointers in structure object variant are dereferenced and
> the objects copied into the vector.
I think you are correct and the comment is wrong.
Ian