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Roman Werpachowski wrote, On 17.1.2010 15:22:
> Hi,
> 
> The cygwin C++ library does not seem to implement std::copy_n
> (http://www.sgi.com/tech/stl/copy_n.html) Why?
"This function is an SGI extension; it is not part of the C++ standard."

You should not expect it to exist if you want portable code.

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