Tell "the rest of the story" about LLVM's iterators' implicit conversions.

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Dan Gohman 2010-03-26 19:39:05 +00:00
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<p>Unfortunately, these implicit conversions come at a cost; they prevent
these iterators from conforming to standard iterator conventions, and thus
from being usable with standard algorithms and containers. For example, it
prevents the following code, where <tt>B</tt> is a <tt>BasicBlock</tt>,
from compiling:</p>
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llvm::SmallVector&lt;llvm::Instruction *, 16&gt;(B-&gt;begin(), B-&gt;end());
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<p>Because of this, these implicit conversions may be removed some day,
and <tt>operator*</tt> changed to return a pointer instead of a reference.
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