Re: auto_ptr for array of built-ins

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<howard.hinnant-EF886C.15181317042008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Howard Hinnant <howard.hinnant@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> 
> Finally, if you want to, how about:
> 
>      string result(..., '\0');
>      int length = call_c_function (result.data(), ...);
>      result.resize(length);
>      return result;
> 
> string isn't guaranteed to be contiguous in C++03, but it is in C++0X,
> and I know of no implementation that does not already meet this
> requirement.  It does require you to initialize your original oversized
> buffer.  But it avoids a new/delete.
   consider
      string result("abcde");
      result.data()[3] = '$';
      assert(result[3] == '$'); 
   where does it state that the assert does not fail.?

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