Refactor: Removed begin/end_ptr functions.

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 32 deletions

diff --git a/src/serialize.h b/src/serialize.h
index e28ca548c0..2be6f005e3 100644
--- a/src/serialize.h
+++ b/src/serialize.h
@@ -59,34 +59,6 @@ inline T* NCONST_PTR(const T* val)
     return const_cast<T*>(val);
 }
 
-/**
- * Important: Do not use the following functions in new code, but use v.data()
- * and v.data() + v.size() respectively directly. They were once introduced to
- * have a compatible, safe way to get the begin and end pointer of a vector.
- * However with C++11 the language has built-in functionality for this and it's
- * more readable to just use that.
- */
-template <typename V>
-inline typename V::value_type* begin_ptr(V& v)
-{
-    return v.data();
-}
-template <typename V>
-inline const typename V::value_type* begin_ptr(const V& v)
-{
-    return v.data();
-}
-template <typename V>
-inline typename V::value_type* end_ptr(V& v)
-{
-    return v.data() + v.size();
-}
-template <typename V>
-inline const typename V::value_type* end_ptr(const V& v)
-{
-    return v.data() + v.size();
-}
-
 /*
  * Lowest-level serialization and conversion.
  * @note Sizes of these types are verified in the tests
@@ -390,14 +362,14 @@ public:
     template <class T, class TAl>
     explicit CFlatData(std::vector<T,TAl> &v)
     {
-        pbegin = (char*)begin_ptr(v);
-        pend = (char*)end_ptr(v);
+        pbegin = (char*)v.data();
+        pend = (char*)(v.data() + v.size());
     }
     template <unsigned int N, typename T, typename S, typename D>
     explicit CFlatData(prevector<N, T, S, D> &v)
     {
-        pbegin = (char*)begin_ptr(v);
-        pend = (char*)end_ptr(v);
+        pbegin = (char*)v.data();
+        pend = (char*)(v.data() + v.size());
     }
     char* begin() { return pbegin; }
     const char* begin() const { return pbegin; }