Re: Red-black trees was Re: [PATCH] : PR libstdc++ 3349

[Phil Edwards <pedwards at disaster dot jaj dot com>]

On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 05:08:59PM -0700, Benjamin Kosnik wrote:
> > I really really wish I could read the thread surrounding the original change.
> > This PR has been bothering me.
> 
> Yeah this is a bummer. 
> 
> The history of the "John Potter in 1999" change is 
> completely lost. Perhaps somebody will re-find the bug that caused this? 
> 
> I think this is a sane way to proceed.

I think I recall someone on overseers mentioning that a tape backup existed;
the eternal problem is finding the time to restore the files.


> > The same thing should be tested on multimaps; the insert_equal() function
> > might suffer from the same bug.  I haven't checked yet.
> 
> Huh. Yeah, it would be nice to get all this stuff at once.

This may or may not be something that I get to anytime soon.  :-)


Phil

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