Re: Defect Report: Unclear wording about capacity of temporary buffers

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Martin Bonner wrote:
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>> I read this as prohibiting to return a buffer of which capacity is less
>> than n, because such a buffer is not sufficient to store n objects.
>
> Correct.  What other reading is possible?
>
>> Now I propose the following wordings.
>
> Sorry, you haven't explained what is wrong with the current wording.

My above reading, and your reading, render many existing
implementations (which can return a buffer of which capacity is less
than n) non-conforming.
http://gcc.gnu.org/viewcvs/trunk/libstdc%2B%2B-v3/include/bits/stl_tempbuf.h?revision=169421&view=markup#l67

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Re: Defect Report: Unclear wording about capacity of temporary buffers Kazutoshi Satoda <k_satoda@f2.dion.ne.jp> - 2011-08-28 08:40 -0700

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