[RFC] libstdc++/8780

[Paolo Carlini]

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.