std::vector::insert => strong excepption guarantee?

[Paolo Carlini]

Dhruv Matani wrote:

>>Well, Josuttis
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>I don't have that book ;-(
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The relevant pages are only a few, 3-4. Perhaps you my find it in a library?

>>Indeed, the SGI/HP code appear to conform to this requirement, which is 
>>not really the strong guarantee.
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>Even I think so. However, the strong guarantee would be when the copy
>ctor and assignment are allowed to throw, and still the code behaves as
>if nothing has happened? Am I right on this count?
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Yes, I think you are: "nothing happened", in the sense of a full roll back.

Paolo.