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submitted 1 year ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] pelya@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

std::vector<bool> fits eight booleans into one byte.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org 8 points 1 year ago

std::vector<std::vector> is how I stored the representation of a play field for a Tetris game I made once.

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[–] borokov@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

auto v = std::vector<bool>(8);
bool* vPtr = v.data;
vPtr[2] = true;
// KABOOM !!!

I've spent days tracking this bug... That's how I learned about bool specialisation of std::vector.

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