The resolutions to some library defect reports, like #1178

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/lwg-active.html#1178

requires that #includes in each synopsis should be taken literally.
This means that the <bitset> header now MUST include <stdexcept>, even
though none of the exceptions are mentioned in the <bitset> header.

Many other classes are required to throw exceptions like
invalid_argument and out_of_range, without explicitly including
<stdexcept> in their synopsis. It is totally possible for
implementations to throw the needed exceptions from utility functions,
whose implementations are not visible in the headers.

I propose that <stdexcept> is removed from the <bitset> header.



Bo Persson



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