List of references to the objects in another list.

[roberts]

I'm having to rewrite or redesign due to problems I'm foreseeing in my project. However, to keep the memory usage minimal I'd like to have a list of references to objects that may be in a different list or vector.

Is it going to be as simple as:

list<Triangle> t_list;

list<Triangle &> tr_list

or would I need to make the reference list a list of pointers?

[Texan40]

I'd go with pointers... that way you can point them to existing objects or allocate them dynamically. Also a pointer can be void whereas a reference cannot.