Thomas Krebs wrote: > Ulrich Eckhardt schrieb: > > Thomas Krebs <Thomas_Krebsatgmxdotde> wrote: > >> trying to port some code to Fedora Core 5 with installed gcc 4.1.0 I > >> found that std::set::erase(iterator) returns void. > >> I don't have the standard document, but should this method return > >> the position to the next element in the set? > > > > It's a piece that was not adopted from the STL, the standard says it > > returns void. Workaround is typically to use the postincrement operator on > > the passed iterator. > > > > Just wondering, what standardlibrary are you porting from? > > > > VC 7.1, returns the incremented iterator...
I remember asking about this some time ago and received the answer from DinkumWare (VC's std library supplier) that the return value from erase is a "conforming extension". As such, you cannot expect code that relies upon it to be portable. Regards, Jon Trauntvein _______________________________________________ help-gplusplus mailing list help-gplusplus@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gplusplus
