Re: About std::vector::resize().

[Paolo Carlini <pcarlini at suse dot de>]

Martin Sebor wrote:

>     T *p = &v [0];
>     v.resize (n);   // must not reallocate
>     assert (&v [0] == p);

Interestingly, this requirement doesn't exist for basic_string (the 
famous 21.3, p5)
but I don't see either how the proposed algorithm would help in that 
case, *when*
the underlying data is just an array of PODs.

It could in the case of a 'rope'-like object, for example.

Paolo.