David Abrahams wrote:
If STLPort is complaining about that, it's because what you're doing is illegal. A default constructed standard container iterator is "singular", and no operations on it (including comparison) are legal other than assigning a non-singular iterator value into it. Although a few specialized iterators in std:: work differently (e.g. istream_iterator), in general you have to make the same assumption for any other iterator.
I know that but I don't know if Pavol was aware of it. The directory_iterator in the filesystem library also has the same behaviour if default constructed and [although it's no iterator on a standard container and can't cause any assertions in STLPort therefore] the filesystem documentation reads: 'Class directory_iterator provides a C++ standard conforming input iterator ...'.
Any solution which doesn't break the syntax? I don't have any idea which could be implemented easily...
Post some more detail about what you mean by "the syntax" please.
I meant not changing the library interface but maybe this behaviour of default constructed iterators _has_ to be removed. I will try to find all these occurences later. Stefan