GCC FAIL WITH BASIC STL EXAMPLE

[Theodore Papadopoulo]

On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 08:26 -0700, trincheira wrote:
> Hello Guys, 
> 
> I am developing some applications that extensively uses STL. I plan to use
> the 
> traits -> iterator_traits to get information about which type do I need to
> return.
> Unfortunately, I've been experienced some problems to use such
> functionality.
> 
> This simple test code was extracted from the SGI-STL website, but oddly
> enough it doesn't compile: 
> #include 
> #include 
> #include 
> #include 
> 
> template 
> std::iterator_traits::value_type 
> last_value(InputIterator first, InputIterator last) {
>   std::iterator_traits::value_type result = *first;
>   for (++first; first != last; ++first)
>     result = *first;
>   return result;
> }    
> 
> using namespace std;
> 
> int main()
> {
> 	std::vector teste(10);
> 	fill_n(teste.begin(),10,1.2);
> 	double result = last_value(teste.begin(),teste.end());
> 	return 0;
> }

I looks like one of your copy paste did not work correctly. There are
bunch of <> that are missing from your program. If it is just in the
email that those parts are missing try inserting a typename before
std::iterator_traits::value_type each time this construction appears...