The attached file contains my attempt to exercise copy and copy_backward algorithms using new test driver.

Martin Sebor wrote:

>>Yes, the to_string() helper function is absent from the new driver. There is no equivalent for class X, but the best way to handle it, I think, is along the same lines as in 25.adjacent.find.cpp, i.e.,    > use printable characters instead of integers as values for X.val_. Then we can easily print out the sequence(s) in diagnostics.
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In this version I just removed all references to tempstr structure - it was used for very detailed diagnostic messages only - and  I changed these messages.

With best wishes,
Anton Pevtsov.

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Martin Sebor [mailto:sebor@roguewave.com] 
>Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 03:42
>To: stdcxx-dev@incubator.apache.org
>Subject: Re: questions about the lib.alg.copy test
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>Martin Sebor wrote:
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>>Anton Pevtsov wrote:
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>>>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?
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>>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.
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>Here's the issue: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/STDCXX-78
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>Martin
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