_Rb_tree::erase(const _Key* __first, const _Key* __last)

[Jonathan Wakely]

On 15/12/16 17:54 +0000, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
>Is this function an extension?
>
> template<typename _Key, typename _Val, typename _KeyOfValue,
>          typename _Compare, typename _Alloc>
>   void
>   _Rb_tree<_Key, _Val, _KeyOfValue, _Compare, _Alloc>::
>   erase(const _Key* __first, const _Key* __last)
>   {
>     while (__first != __last)
>	erase(*__first++);
>   }
>
>It's not in the SGI STL documentation, but it's been in our
>implementation since Benjamin added that file, in rev 36723.

It does come from the SGI STL, line 1137 in stl_tree.h from
https://www.sgi.com/tech/stl/stl_tree.h

>Should we keep it? There doesn't seem to be any way to call it,
>because it's only on the _Rb_tree class, so there's no public member
>of std::{,multi}{map,set} that can be used to call it.

>From a quick look, that seems to have been true for the SGI STL too.