On Tue, 17 Aug 2021 at 14:02, Hans Åberg via Std-Discussion <
std-discussion_at_[hidden]> wrote:

>
> > On 17 Aug 2021, at 11:23, Daniel Krügler <daniel.kruegler_at_[hidden]>
> wrote:
> >
> > Am Di., 17. Aug. 2021 um 10:48 Uhr schrieb Hans Åberg via
> > Std-Discussion <std-discussion_at_[hidden]>:
> >>
> >> Which is the earliest C++ version of which vector::data should be
> considered a part? —It is not in the ISO+IEC+14882-1998 document, but there
> is a proposal from 2004 to add it.
> >>
> >> https://cplusplus.github.io/LWG/issue464
> >
> > It should be guaranteed to be specified in the C++11 standard, but the
> > C++ committee has voted the above-mentioned issue into CD1 in 2008. So
> > some vendors may have added this function even in C++03 mode (in case
> > they have updated their library implementations), but you cannot rely
> > on that.
>
> The issue is with GNU Bison that writes C++ parser files intended to
> compile with several C++ versions. Then GCC 4.2 from 2007-2008 has C++98,
> but does not have vector::data. Is that correct?
>

That seems unlikely to be correct. godbolt.org does not have gcc 4.2, but
it has gcc 4.1.2 (from 2006), and that has vector::data.

https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/commit/8b5f07a224611f7dcff90910b493b93c2ef0c6b8
indicates that the earliest gcc release that contains it is gcc 4.1.0.