Thread: queue.top()

In my compiler's MSDN, it specifies that a std::queue has a member function called top() which is a synonym for front(). However, a call to top() simply does not compile on my system ("top is not a member of queue") while front() does. Is there a problem with my headers, or is there some compatibility reason?

Originally Posted by MSDN Library Visual Studio 6.0

queue::top
value_type& top();
const value_type& top() const;
The member function returns a reference to the first element of the controlled sequence, which must be non-empty.

I guess it must be wrong Strangely however, I looked up std::queue and top() on google, and ended up on gcc's site where there was the class declaration for queue, and it also had top() declared in it. Although, thinking back, it seems that it was inside a #ifdef block of sorts.

**Edit: Went back to the gcc site, and it turns out the page was for priority_queue after all.