Re: Dynamic arrays

[Marc Hernandez <marc@ias.jb.com>]

On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Mike Main wrote:

> *Cough cough* LINKED LISTS *Cough Hack!*

	While linked lists are sometimes the answer, sometimes you want
constant random access lookup (or contiguous memory).
	Personally I would use std::vector as it handles all this stuff.
It is fast and typesafe and has already been beat on by many developers.
	Why is the stl not acceptable in your case?

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <dakline@vassar.edu>
> To: <gameprogrammer@gameprogrammer.com>
> Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 7:49 PM
> Subject: Dynamic arrays
> 
> 
> > Here's a topic that comes up all the time. How do you allocate the size of
> > an array after a program has been started. I know you can change the size
> > of STL vectors but that's not what I want. I imagine it has something to
> do
> > with the char* format, using null-terminated strings maybe, but that won't
> > work for other data types, and the method behind it is mysterious to me.
> >
> > Would someone mind giving the topic a rundown for me?
> >
> > thanks,
> > SirFern
> >
> >
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