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From: Pete Becker <petebecker@acm.org>
Subject: Re: set.erase( it1, it2)
Date: 2000/11/12
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Dennis Yelle wrote:
> 
> Is this legal:
> 
> void f( set<char>& a, set<char>& b)
> {
>   a.erase( b.begin(), b.end());
> }
> 
> It seems to crash gcc if b is not empty.
> If not legal, where does the standard say
> that it is not legal?
> 

23.1.2/7. The arguments q1 and q2 passed to a.erase(q1, q2) must be
valid iterators to a.

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