compilation error with const_reverse_iterator

From:
 "subramanian100in@yahoo.com, India" <subramanian100in@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Wed, 03 Oct 2007 23:12:29 -0700
Message-ID:
<1191478349.324223.166360@57g2000hsv.googlegroups.com>
Consider the following program:

#include <iostream>
#include <map>
#include <string>
#include <utility>
#include <algorithm>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
map<string, int> si;

string word;

while (cin >> word)
    ++si[word];

multimap<int, string> is;

for (map<string, int>::const_iterator i = si.begin(); i != si.end(); +
+i)
    is.insert(make_pair(i->second, i->first));

for (multimap<int, string>::const_reverse_iterator r = is.rbegin(); r !
= is.rend(); ++r)
    cout << r->second << " " << r->first << endl;

return 0;
}

Under g++, I get compilation error for the line

for (multimap<int, string>::const_reverse_iterator r = is.rbegin(); r !
= is.rend(); ++r)

The actual error message is

error: no match for 'operator!=' in 'r != std::multimap<_Key, _Tp,
_Compare, _Alloc>::rend() [with _Key = int, _Tp = std::string,
_Compare = std::less<int>, _Alloc = std::allocator<std::pair<const
int, std::string> >]()'

However this program compiles fine under VC++ 2005 Express Edition.

I use the following compilation command under g++.

g++ -std=c++98 -pedantic -Wall -Wextra word_count.cpp

Kindly explain why I am getting error for the above mentioned line
under g++ only.

Thanks
V.Subramanian

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