forward_list question

[Daniel Krügler]

2012/10/30 Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@gmail.com>:
> Hi Ed,
>
> Your forward_list patch in
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/libstdc++/2008-10/msg00053.html includes the
> comment:
>
> +   *  First, we never actually allocate a Tp, we allocate
> +   *  Fwd_list_node<Tp>'s and trust [20.1.5]/4 to DTRT.  This is to ensure
>
> Any idea which draft that standard reference was from?  Because
> whatever you were referring to is no longer at 20.1.5!  I'e looked
> through several drafts from 2008 and most don't even have a 20.1.5

My immediate reaction was that this must have been

20.1.5 Allocator requirements [lib.allocator.requirements] p4

from C++03:

"Implementations of containers described in this International
Standard are permitted to assume that their
Allocator template parameter meets the following two additional
requirements beyond those in Table 32. [..] "

- Daniel