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libstdc++/63449 remove outdated documentation

Message ID 20141003142925.GG4197@redhat.com
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Jonathan Wakely Oct. 3, 2014, 2:29 p.m. UTC 
On 03/10/14 14:36 +0100, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
>I think after 12 years it's safe to say that alternative version ain't
>gonna happen.
>
>Committed to trunk.

Here's the patch for the 4.8 and 4.9 branches, which also updates the
notes on std::list::size() being O(N) (in the words of Whitney
Houston, it's not right but it's okay).
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commit d7a5af3dfd44681e8073209a87d8376496dd647f
Author: Jonathan Wakely <jwakely@redhat.com>
Date:   Fri Oct 3 15:21:09 2014 +0100

    	PR libstdc++/63449
    	* doc/xml/manual/containers.xml: Remove outdated section. Update
    	std::list notes.
    	* doc/html/*: Regenerate.

diff --git a/libstdc++-v3/doc/xml/manual/containers.xml b/libstdc++-v3/doc/xml/manual/containers.xml
index 9fea0f7..ba8b087 100644
--- a/libstdc++-v3/doc/xml/manual/containers.xml
+++ b/libstdc++-v3/doc/xml/manual/containers.xml
@@ -25,8 +25,9 @@ 
   <section xml:id="sequences.list.size" xreflabel="list::size() is O(n)"><info><title>list::size() is O(n)</title></info>
     
    <para>
-     Yes it is, and that's okay.  This is a decision that we preserved
-     when we imported SGI's STL implementation.  The following is
+     Yes it is, and that was okay until the 2011 edition of the C++ standard.
+     In future GCC will change it to O(1) but O(N) was a decision that we
+     preserved when we imported SGI's STL implementation.  The following is
      quoted from <link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://www.sgi.com/tech/stl/FAQ.html">their FAQ</link>:
    </para>
    <blockquote>
@@ -72,26 +73,6 @@ 
   </section>
 </section>
 
-<section xml:id="containers.sequences.vector" xreflabel="vector"><info><title>vector</title></info>
-<?dbhtml filename="vector.html"?>
-  
-  <para>
-  </para>
-  <section xml:id="sequences.vector.management" xreflabel="Space Overhead Management"><info><title>Space Overhead Management</title></info>
-    
-   <para>
-     In <link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/libstdc++/2002-04/msg00105.html">this
-     message to the list</link>, Daniel Kostecky announced work on an
-     alternate form of <code>std::vector</code> that would support
-     hints on the number of elements to be over-allocated.  The design
-     was also described, along with possible implementation choices.
-   </para>
-   <para>
-     The first two alpha releases were announced <link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/libstdc++/2002-07/msg00048.html">here</link>
-     and <link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/libstdc++/2002-07/msg00111.html">here</link>.
-   </para>
-
-  </section></section>
 </section>
 
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