[llvm] r215988 - CodingStandards: Document std::equal misbehaviour

[Duncan P. N. Exon Smith]

Author: dexonsmith
Date: Tue Aug 19 11:49:40 2014
New Revision: 215988

URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?rev=215988&view=rev
Log:
CodingStandards: Document std::equal misbehaviour

I should have included this as part of r215986, which worked around this
corner by changing ArrayRef::equals() not to use std::equal.  Alas.

Modified:
    llvm/trunk/docs/CodingStandards.rst

Modified: llvm/trunk/docs/CodingStandards.rst
URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/llvm/trunk/docs/CodingStandards.rst?rev=215988&r1=215987&r2=215988&view=diff
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--- llvm/trunk/docs/CodingStandards.rst (original)
+++ llvm/trunk/docs/CodingStandards.rst Tue Aug 19 11:49:40 2014
@@ -162,6 +162,8 @@ being aware of:
 * ``std::initializer_list`` (and the constructors and functions that take it as
   an argument) are not always available, so you cannot (for example) initialize
   a ``std::vector`` with a braced initializer list.
+* ``std::equal()`` (and other algorithms) incorrectly assert in MSVC when given
+  ``nullptr`` as an iterator.
 
 Other than these areas you should assume the standard library is available and
 working as expected until some build bot tells you otherwise. If you're in an