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		adrianN 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: C++ std::move doesn't move anything: A deep dive i... Is pushing to a moved-from vector even legal? I thought in general the only guarantee you have after a move is that is save to destruct the object.

ben-schaaf 3 months ago [–]

The state of a moved-from value is valid but unspecified (note, not undefined). IIRC the spec says vector must be `empty()` after a move. So all implementations do the obvious thing and revert back to an empty vector.

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