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Re: [RFC] libstdc++/8780
Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
The submitter is confused. I would like to see the exact wording from
those paragraphs that may imply that a vector<>::iterator ought to be
a pointer.
| This seems to me non at all obvious! It is just a QoI issue?
| (in few other widespread implementations iterator *is* just a pointer)
This is a QoI. I would expect a decent implementation to distinguish
a vector<>::iterator from a plain pointer.
| Much more generally, I'm interested in knowing why the implementation
| of iterator was changed in such a way in the transition between v2 and v3.
Thanks Gaby for your feedback. I have changed the status to <feedback>,
adding to the audit trial your comments.
Ciao, Paolo.