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    All of the overloads are present in the Visual C++ 11 Beta. It's not really a failing of the Standard Library implementation: some of the overloads were added to C++11 after Visual C++ 2010 was released. Commented May 19, 2012 at 16:02
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    Defect Report 1261 happened in 2009; I think it's reasonable to blame Microsoft a little for moving slowly, at least. Commented May 19, 2012 at 16:05
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    Picking a draft version of a standard to implement and not paying attention to bugfixes after that point is not what I would call best practice. The IE team does this too and it's infuriating. Commented May 19, 2012 at 16:12
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    @Zack : Well, no one ever accused MS of following best practices... ;-] Commented May 19, 2012 at 16:14
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    FYI g++ version 4.4.7 on CentOS-6 also has the same issue (and is also from a similar timeframe as the above mentioned MSVC compiler). Commented Apr 25, 2018 at 17:53