VS2005 and the stl list::iterator

[LooselyBased]

Well most of my code that uses the -- operator for the list::iterator class does so only in cases where it knows it can decrement. For example, I have a game simulator as one of my classes that takes a reference to a list and fills it with the order the players finished from last to first. So when I go to print out the scores, I start at the end and work backwards to print out the top 3 players.

struct GameWinner
	{
		string name;
		double time;
		...
	};

	...

	GameSimulator sim;
	list<GameWinner> winners;
	sim.simulateTournament(winners);
	list<GameWinner>::iterator cur = winners.end();
	winners--;
	cout << "First place: " << winners->name << " (" << winners->time << ")" << endl;
	winners--;
	cout << "Second place: " << winners->name << " (" << winners->time << ")" << endl;
	...