------- Comment #2 from chris at bubblescope dot net 2007-03-17 17:19 ------- Depending on how you read it, 24.3.1 looks to me like it might require that. It says that iterator_traits is defined to include:
typedef typename Iterator::value_type value_type; and that it is specialised for various types of pointers. If we removed std::vector<int>::iterator::value_type, we would then have to overload iterator_traits for vector, and I'm not sure we are allowed to. Out of interest, which compilers still have a pointer for std::vector::iterator? -- chris at bubblescope dot net changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |chris at bubblescope dot net http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31247