return value in std::copy documentation seems to be wrong

[Jonathan Wakely]

On Sun, 11 Oct 2020 at 14:00, Johannes Choo <jhanschoo@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Thanks! Also note that an analogous mistake is present in std::copy_backward

And std::move and std::move_backward.


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> On Sun, Oct 11, 2020 at 8:37 PM Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Sun, 11 Oct 2020 at 08:18, Johannes Choo via Libstdc++
>> <libstdc++@gcc.gnu.org> wrote:
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>> > Hi all,
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>> > I'm a beginner with C++, but the documentation for std::copy seems to be
>> > mistaken in its documented return value (
>> > https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/latest-doxygen/a01486.html#ga894f503412130680dc19c87af289f4f4
>> > ). It reads,
>> >
>> > Returns: result + (first - last)
>> >
>> > where the copy function signature is std::copy(first, last, result).
>> >
>> > Shouldn't it be
>> >
>> > result + (last - first) ?
>>
>> Yes, well spotted! I'll fix it, thanks.
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