Using operator[] on empty std::vector

Question

I was advised a while ago that is was common place to use std::vector as exception safe dynamic array in c++ rather than allocating raw arrays... for exampl

Answer 1

MVS does range checking in operator[] even in release builds. I don't know if it's standard compliant. (I actually found debug code in their implementation which made their implementation break correct code). There is a switch to disable it though.