basic_string<>::max_size - only 1MB?

[Ryszard Kabatek <rysio@rumcajs.chemie.uni-halle.de>]

The basic_string<>::max_size returns _Rep::_S_max_size.
In the current implementation it is only 1MB*sizeof(CharT).
It is too few!

It prohibits the reading of a file into a string. 
BTW. A common way to do it by the template constructor is
     after the last change not possible because the specialization 
     for input iterator was removed. I hope it will be fixed soon.

I think _Rep::_S_max_size should be increased to npos/40 (=100MB) or so. 
It is enough for every application and a concatenation of two strings 
will still not expand the string size beyond size_type(-1).


Ryszard Kabatek
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