c++11: erase using a const_iterator

Question

I believe that since C++11, the erase function of most containers (e.g. std::vector) accepts a const_iterator as parameter:

Answer 1

This issue is documented here and it's reported as a partial implementation for now.

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If you are on Linux it's possible to build a development version of the libcxx library from the LLVM project that you can download from here; I don't know if this solves any of the issues that you are experiencing but I'm proposing it as an alternative to the libstdc++.