[boost] [algorithm][minmax_element] implementation question

Subject: [boost] [algorithm][minmax_element] implementation question
From: Michael Marcin (mike.marcin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-07-03 23:22:40

I was looking at minmax_elemement to try and understand the algorithm.

I noticed that the boost implementation looks significantly more 
complicated than the clang libc++ implementation.

Mainly due to the potential_min_result variable that exists in the boost 
version.

Is there a reason for this discrepancy? Is there a bug in the clang 
implementation?

http://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/libcxx/trunk/include/algorithm

http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_54_0/boost/algorithm/minmax_element.hpp