What happens if you increment an iterator that is equal to the end iterator of an STL container

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Following is the quote from Nicolai Josuttis book:

Note that advance() does not check
whether it crosses the end() of a
sequence (it can’t check because
iterators in general do not know the
containers on which they operate).
Thus, calling this function might
result in undefined behavior because
calling operator ++ for the end of a
sequence is not defined

In other words, the responsibility of maintaining the iterator within the range lies totally with the caller.

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