How should a size-limited stl-like container be implemented?

Question

While refactoring, I wanted to change an array where entries are added to an std::vector, but for compatibility (persistency, downgrading,...), it still needs to have an upp

Answer 1

Have a look at this static_vector implementation which I found a while ago. I think it does exactly what you want.

It's distributed under the very liberal boost license, so you're allowed to do just about anything with it.