[Dev-C++] STL, iterators and pointers?

[Phil S. <fy...@qw...>]

Some questions about the STL containers and iterators.

 When you insert an object into a multiset (or list, etc.) does it
create a copy of the original Object, or does it connect to the
original? 

and I'm not sure how to ask this next one:
If you have an iterator for the above multiset, can you get a generic
Object* out of it that points to the Object?  I tried taking the
addressof the dereferenced iterator ( &(*iter) ) but that didn't seem to
work out quite right...


Why I'm asking:
I have two classes, Book and Author that each contain a pointer to the
other.

I have a multiset of Books, and a multiset of Authors. When I add a new
Book, I need to be able to link it to an Author, and vice versa. The
Book* I get when I make a new object doesn't correspond to where the
iterator is pointing. 

I guess that I could do this easier if I replaced the reciprical
pointers with multiset iterators, but I want to make the Book and Author
classes as basic as possible.  I'm experimenting with the different STL
containers. and I want to not have to adapt the classes for each one.

Hoping this makes sense,
Phil


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