[GiNaC-list] Use of STL iterators in GiNaC

[Michael Abshoff]

Michael Goffioul wrote:
> Hi,

Hi Michael,

> I'm trying to compile ginac-1.5.1 with VC++ under Windows.
> I know "I should get myself a better compiler", but that being
> said, I've encountered runtime problems due to usage of
> STL iterators that might be wrong, essentially on std::vector.
> 
> Problems I've noticed are: dereferencing end(), incrementing
> end(), decrementing begin()...


Up to VS 2003 these operations did not cause any trouble and behaved 
just like gcc. Since 2005 those lead to pointers in hyperspace and cause 
segfaults. I am not sure what the C++ standard says about such operations.

> I'm currently tracking down these issues by running the test
> suite in the source package, but this might not catch all of them.
> If you are interested, I can send a patch once I succeed to run
> the test suite completely.

Cool. I am not a contributor to the ginac project, but I would love to 
see your patch.

> Bye,
> Michael.

Cheers,

Michael

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