Container insertion and removal

[Joel C. Salomon]

On 3/6/2010 5:18 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Good question. In STL, invalidation roughly means undefined behavior if
> you use it. With GC in tow, the concept could be significantly milder.
> For example, reallocating an array would leave the old contents of the
> array sort of around, just obsoleted and also depleted of meaningful
> content if the data type has a destructor.

So it’s still a bug to use an invalidated iterator/range, and probably
still has unusual (if no longer undefined) effects if you do follow it,
but it (probably) won’t cause memory corruption.  Is that correct?

—Joel Salomon