http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56753
--- Comment #4 from rb at oaktreepeak dot com 2013-03-27 15:17:14 UTC --- I have a team of guys here and I am not attempting to be argumentative. We are trying to understand your rather terse comments. Perhaps this isn't the official documentation (if there is such a thing), but even in the example opeartor[] is used to store values: http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/vector/vector/operator[] I am certainly willing to learn (we all are) if you could be a bit more descriptive.