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In article <qdr2rssq4e4v10sl1ud4sj0ahdcnpk19u6 AT 4ax DOT com>,
Jason Green  <mail AT jgreen4 DOT fsnet DOT co DOT uk> wrote:
>> Do you mean the standard classes? Because I'm sure even Bjarne Stroustrup
>> (sp?) has said otherwise in some tome, but I could be wrong. 
>
>"Using resize() on a vector is very similar to using the C standard
>library function realloc() on a C array allocated on the free store."

Sorry: yes. What I wrote was the exact opposite of what I meant, due to
multiple rewrites before sending. I meant that /only/ in the standard
classes was there a realloc() equivalent.

>The C++ standard, as far as possible, is backward compatible with
>conforming C code.  However, there were a few things the C++ standard
>committee felt were more important then backward compatibilty, and
>implicit conversion of void pointers was one of them.

I think we're going to end up violently agreeing with each other here,
especially as implicit pointer conversion (bad due to polymorphism) hasn't
got much to do with realloc().

J-P