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Re: Bug in the egcs STL implementation?

To: Bavo De Ridder <bavo at ace dot ulyssis dot student dot kuleuven dot ac dot be>
Subject: Re: Bug in the egcs STL implementation?
From: Alexandre Oliva <oliva at dcc dot unicamp dot br>
Date: 23 Jun 1998 19:57:35 -0300
Cc: egcs-bugs at cygnus dot com
References: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980618133425.10363A-100000@ace.ulyssis.student.kuleuven.ac.be>

Bavo De Ridder <bavo@ace.ulyssis.student.kuleuven.ac.be> writes:

> no match for `istream_iterator<char,int> & - istream_iterator<char,int> &'

> InputIterators instead of const_iterators are used. Have a look at the
> last line of code: "size_type n2 = j2 - j1;" how can you substract two
> InputIterators?

In general, you can't.  The implementation shouldn't rely on that,
it's a bug.

-- 
Alexandre Oliva
mailto:oliva@dcc.unicamp.br mailto:aoliva@acm.org
http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~oliva
Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP, Brasil

References:
- Bug in the egcs STL implementation?
  - From: Bavo De Ridder

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