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>>>In the HP STL, deque::iterator has a default ctor which initialises
>>>several of its members with the value 0
>>>
>>>       iterator() : current(0), first(0), last(0), node(0) {}

>> Well, they goofed, I suppose.  Seems the types of allocators they 
>> used were all pointers, so they didn't test out other cases.


Joe, you're absolutely right. I got a post (through a Compuserve forum) 
from someone pointing out that class 'deque' in the HP STL has bugs.

            David



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