High Integrity CPP Rule 17.13

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High Integrity CPP Rule 17.13 Do not use vector<bool>.

Justification

vector<bool> does not conform to the requirements of a container and does not work as expected in all STL algorithms.

In particular &v[0] does not return a contiguous array of bools as it does for other vector types.

Reference

Effective STL Item 13;ISO C++ 23.1;