Basic string bug

[Jonathan H Lundquist]

Gawain is correct of course, must have been brain fade :)

-----Original Message-----
From: Gawain Bolton [ mailto:gbolton@club-internet.fr ]
Sent: Thursday, September 30, 1999 1:00 PM
To: Jonathan H Lundquist
Cc: 'libstdc++@sourceware.cygnus.com'
Subject: Re: Basic string bug

Jonathan H Lundquist wrote:

>       else if (__n < __size)
>         this->erase(__n);
>       // else nothing (in particular, avoid calling _M_mutate()
> unnecessarily.)
>     }
>
> I believe this->erase(__n) should be erase(ibegin() + n, iend())

I admit the code looks a bit strange, but I believe it is correct...  In
effect the function being called is:

erase(size_type pos = 0, size_type n = npos);

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