The naive implementation of std::copy_n() incorrectly increments InputIterator one more time than needed, which fails with single-pass input iterators such as istream_iterator Test program: #include <algorithm> #include <vector> #include <sstream> #include <iterator> #include <iostream> int main() { std::istringstream s("1 2 3 4 5"); std::vector<int> v; copy_n(std::istream_iterator<int>(s), 2, back_inserter(v)); copy_n(std::istream_iterator<int>(s), 2, back_inserter(v)); copy(v.begin(), v.end(), std::ostream_iterator<int>(std::cout, " ")); std::cout << '\n'; } Output with GCC 4.5.3 and 4.7.0-alpha20110716 1 2 4 5 expected output: 1 2 3 4 Similar bug was fixed in LLVM's libc++ in february 2011, the fix is straightforward: http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/cfe-commits/Week-of-Mon-20110221/039404.html
Ok.
Author: paolo Date: Thu Aug 18 16:32:23 2011 New Revision: 177871 URL: http://gcc.gnu.org/viewcvs?root=gcc&view=rev&rev=177871 Log: 2011-08-18 Paolo Carlini <paolo.carlini@oracle.com> PR libstdc++/50119 * include/bits/stl_algo.h (__copy_n(_InputIterator, _Size, _OutputIterator, input_iterator_tag)): Fix. * testsuite/25_algorithms/copy_n/50119.cc: New. Added: trunk/libstdc++-v3/testsuite/25_algorithms/copy_n/50119.cc Modified: trunk/libstdc++-v3/ChangeLog trunk/libstdc++-v3/include/bits/stl_algo.h
Done, thanks!