title: What are the errors, misconceptions or bad pieces of advice given by cplusplus.com?
body: <p>There are several references for the C++ standard library, including the invaluable ISO standard, <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ct1as7hw.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">MSDN</a>, <a href="http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/comphelp/v9v111/topic/com.ibm.xlcpp9.aix.doc/standlib/overview_headers.htm" rel="nofollow noreferrer">IBM</a>, <a href="http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp" rel="nofollow noreferrer">cppreference</a>, and <a href="http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">cplusplus</a>. Personally, when writing C++ I need a reference that has quick random access, short load times and usage examples, and I've been finding cplusplus.com pretty useful. However, I've been hearing negative opinions about that website frequently here on SO, so I would like to get specific:</p>
  <p>What are the errors, misconceptions or bad pieces of advice given by cplusplus.com? What are the risks of using it to make coding decisions?</p>
  <p>I want to be able to answer questions here on SO with accurate quotes of the standard, and thus I would like to post immediately-usable links, and cplusplus.com would have been my choice site were it not for this issue.</p>