std::string::reserve vs std::vector::reserve

[Peter Soetens]

On Thursday 16 June 2005 13:21, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
>
> The standard was written explicitly so that COW strings would be
> possible (some implementors have since objected that it's worded to make
> non-ref-counted strings too difficult!)
>
> The only requirement on std::string::operator= is that capacity() should
> return "a value at least as large as size()", which libstdc++'s
> implementation does.
>

Thank you for this informative answer !

Peter Soetens

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