Class containing auto_ptr stored in vector

Question

In an answer to Is it safe to store objects of a class which has an std::auto_ptr as its member variable in std::vector? I stated that a class that contained an auto_ptr could

Answer 1

What about the following?

cout << av[ 0 ] << endl;

Also, conceptually, a copy should leave the item copied from unchanged. This is being violated in your implementation.

(It is quite another thing that your original code compiles fine with g++ -pedantic ... and Comeau but not VS2005.)