
it works correctly when setting exception masks on the stream.
<br /><br />
</li>
<li>
Several member functions (<tt>empty()</tt>, <tt>find_first()</tt>
, <tt>find_next()</tt>, <tt>get_allocator()</tt>, <tt>intersects()</tt>
, <tt>max_size()</tt> <!--, <tt>reserve()</tt>, <tt>capacity()</tt> -->)
have been added.
</li>
<li>
The constructor from <tt>basic_string</tt> has a new parameter that was totally
forgotten before.
</li>

</ul>
<i>Technicalities and minor changes</i>
<ul>
<li>
The class <tt>reference<