Re: Help with vector iterator

[Thomas Maeder]

[For some unknown reason, I can't access the original post, so I am
following up to this one.]

Guy Harrison <swamp-DEL-dog@ntlworld.com> writes:

> Garrett Kajmowicz wrote:
>
>> I'm implementing the C++ standard library + stl for embedded systems
>> (ucxx.uclibc.org).  I have an implementation of std::vector which works
>> quite well up until you try and do vector<int>.  Any other data type is
>> find.
>> 
>> There are many problems which I have encountered, but this is the most
>> obvious (and I am hoping will lead me to the rest of the solution).
>> 
>> There are two insert functions I must provide:
>> 
>> void insert(iterator position, size_type n, const T& x );
>> template <class InputIterator> void insert(iterator position,
>> InputIterator first, InputIterator last)
>> 
>> For some reason, when I am using a data type of int, it will treat an
>> integer as an iterator which really screws things up.  Try dereferencing
>> and integer some time and enjoy the compiler errors.  In short, it always
>> calls the second function, even when I want it to call the first.

That's classical. E.g.: http://www.glenmccl.com/033.htm