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[Anthony Shipman]

The implementation of std::destroy for iterators in the SGI STL appears
to be faulty.  See below.

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From: ajenkins@netway.com (Adam P. Jenkins)
Date: 10 Mar 1999 23:59:49 -0500
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als@aaii.com.au (Anthony Shipman) writes:
> In the SGI implementation of STL, the code for std::destroy says
> 
> template <class ForwardIterator>
> inline void
> __destroy_aux(ForwardIterator first, ForwardIterator last, __false_type) {
>   for ( ; first < last; ++first)
>     destroy(&*first);
> }
> 
> 
> Is there a reason why this uses < rather than != ?  
> 
> As it stands I cannot use it on hashtable iterators since they don't
> have operator<.

This seems like an obvious bug, which should be reported to whoever
maintains the version of SGI STL that you're using.  If you're using
it as part of egcs then report it to the egcs maintainers; see
http://egcs.cygnus.com/faq.html#bugreport .  Also send a bug report to
stl@sgi.com.

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Adam P. Jenkins 
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