https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=90135
--- Comment #2 from Jonathan Wakely <redi at gcc dot gnu.org> --- FWIW, these days a proposal to add new member functions would almost certainly not be handled as a defect report, and would require a proposal to add it to the next revision of the standard. But things were sometimes done differently a decade ago, both in the C++ committee and libstdc++.