signal 11 generating problem, was: Further observations regarding alloca on i586-pc-linux-gnu

[Joerg Pommnitz]

Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> 
> Yup, it's syntactically valid C++, but it is wrong because auto_ptr
> will delete the pointer to the array as if it were a pointer to a
> single object.  You should write auto_ptr_array instead.
> 

Where does auto_ptr_array come from? It´s not in SGI´s STL and I have
not
seen it in the Stroustrup either.

> > Returning an auto_ptr is not really an option. According to Stroustrup,
> > "The C++ Programming Language" 3rd Edition page 368, auto_ptr does not
> > contain a cast operator to its element type.
> 
> But it provides a get() method, that you could use to obtain the
> pointer to the contained object.
> 

That´s what I use now.

Regards
	Joerg