Re: [Patch] Remove fpos<>::operator== and !=

[Paolo Carlini <pcarlini at suse dot de>]

Paolo Carlini wrote:

> Mark Mitchell wrote:
>
> > I don't know exactly what source/binary constraints libstdc++ is
> > operating under, but that seems like an incompatible change, as
> > "pos::operator==(-1)" will presumably no longer work?
>
> Indeed, the standard only requires operator== on those objects being 
> an equivalence relation. The requirements are generally very, very, 
> loose. In any case, there are quite a few comments in the file, with 
> specific citations to the standard.

To be more clear: I mentioned the standard, because, according to it, an 
operator== is not even required, it's only specified that *comparing* 
those objects must be an equivalence relation.

Paolo.