From eea6aa420e2891c1f7d72246700a480e2ae895c5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John Maddock <john@johnmaddock.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 17:22:33 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add comment to remove_pointer docs. Fixes #3771.

[SVN r59474]
---
 doc/html/boost_typetraits/reference/remove_pointer.html | 4 +++-
 doc/remove_pointer.qbk                                  | 3 ++-
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/html/boost_typetraits/reference/remove_pointer.html b/doc/html/boost_typetraits/reference/remove_pointer.html
index a653b6a..761fe7a 100644
--- a/doc/html/boost_typetraits/reference/remove_pointer.html
+++ b/doc/html/boost_typetraits/reference/remove_pointer.html
@@ -34,7 +34,9 @@
 </pre>
 <p>
         <span class="bold"><strong>type:</strong></span> The same type as <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">T</span></code>,
-        but with any pointer modifier removed.
+        but with any pointer modifier removed. Note that pointers to members are
+        left unchanged: removing the pointer decoration would result in an invalid
+        type.
       </p>
 <p>
         <span class="bold"><strong>C++ Standard Reference:</strong></span> 8.3.1.
diff --git a/doc/remove_pointer.qbk b/doc/remove_pointer.qbk
index dcbaa2f..0504252 100644
--- a/doc/remove_pointer.qbk
+++ b/doc/remove_pointer.qbk
@@ -13,7 +13,8 @@
       typedef __below type;
    };
   
-__type The same type as `T`, but with any pointer modifier removed.
+__type The same type as `T`, but with any pointer modifier removed.  Note that pointers to members are left unchanged: 
+removing the pointer decoration would result in an invalid type.
 
 __std_ref 8.3.1.