Nonstandard allocator::pointer in containers

[Phil Endecott]

Paolo Carlini wrote:
> First blush, I don't see any problem with this change. Actually,
> considering for instance std::vector, the search-and-replace amounts to
> 5 occurrences all inside struct _Vector_base. I'm wondering whether you
> can maybe try it yourself and report how it goes.

Thanks Paolo and Chris for your quick and helpful replies.

I may have a look at trying this, but I have a practical question first. 
  I'd like to use this in the next version of anyterm, which will ship 
well before the next version of libstdc++ (like next week).  So I'll 
need to be able to ship the modified container code with the Anyterm 
source.  So, if I change the small number of headers and put then in a 
subdirectory and pass a suitable -I flag, will it "just work"?  (Am I 
right in thinking that all of the code is in the headers, or is there 
stuff in the compiled library as well?)  I'm mostly interested in <map>; 
<string> would be nice but vector<char> would be good enough.

--Phil.