Joe Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 09:19:55AM +0100, Jonathan Wakely wrote: >> I assume you are trying something like this: >> >> int* i = new int[5](23); > > While this is not gcc-help, maybe we could make a FAQ item for this. > For people who want to do something like this, I suggest > > std::vector<int> i(5, 23); > > If the reason vector wasn't used in the first place was because some > API needs an array, then use > > std::vector<int> vector_i(5, 23); > int* i = &*vector.begin();
This is not quite the same, because when vector_i goes out of scope it will be destructed, so you can't use the pointer beyond that point. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."
