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Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 17:42:02 -0700
From: Martin Sebor <sebor@roguewave.com>
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Subject: Re: questions about the lib.alg.copy test
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Martin Sebor wrote:
> Anton Pevtsov wrote:
[...]
>> 2. The copy algorithm can work in case when the destination range
>> overlaps the source range (of course, first position of the source range
>> should not be contained in the destination range). Current version
>> doesn't contain special test for this case, but I prefer to have such
>> test. What do you think about it?
> 
> 
> The requirement in 25.2.1, p3 is that "result shall not be in the
> range [first, last)." The algorithm doesn't detect violations of
> this requirement but it probably should in debug mode. This would
> be a useful enhancement in general. Let me file an enhancement for
> it.

Here's the issue: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/STDCXX-78

Martin