From: Manni Heumann <manni DOT heumann AT gmx DOT de>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: newbie: pointers/vectors confusion w/ DJGPP
Date: 23 Jul 2003 11:04:01 GMT
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Tom Weston wrote:

> vector<int> *demand; 
> 
> for (int i=0; i<10; ++i) 
> {
>     demand->push_back(7);
> }
> 

I would have thought that this would crash. You are using the 
push_back() method on a non-existing object. Your pointer is never 
initialized so it doesn't point anywhere where a push_back() method 
can be found.

Why use a pointer to a vector instead of just a vector?


Manni