diff --git a/libstdc++-v3/doc/html/manual/using_concurrency.html b/libstdc++-v3/doc/html/manual/using_concurrency.html
index d21f1588494..d570d3a2b84 100644
--- a/libstdc++-v3/doc/html/manual/using_concurrency.html
+++ b/libstdc++-v3/doc/html/manual/using_concurrency.html
@@ -126,6 +126,16 @@ gcc version 4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-33)
          the container the iterator refers to (for example incrementing a
          list iterator must access the pointers between nodes, which are part
          of the container and so conflict with other accesses to the container).
+      </p><p>
+	 The Copy-On-Write <code class="classname">std::string</code> implementation
+	 used before GCC 5 (and with
+	 <a class="link" href="using_dual_abi.html" title="Dual ABI">_GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI=0</a>)
+	 is not a standard container and does not conform to the data race
+	 avoidance rules described above. For the Copy-On-Write
+	 <code class="classname">std::string</code>, non-const member functions such as
+	 <code class="function">begin()</code> are considered to be modifying accesses
+	 and so must not be used concurrently with any other accesses to the
+	 same object.
       </p><p>Programs which follow the rules above will not encounter data
          races in library code, even when using library types which share
          state between distinct objects.  In the example below the
diff --git a/libstdc++-v3/doc/xml/manual/using.xml b/libstdc++-v3/doc/xml/manual/using.xml
index 7ca3a3f4b4c..bf92c495f6d 100644
--- a/libstdc++-v3/doc/xml/manual/using.xml
+++ b/libstdc++-v3/doc/xml/manual/using.xml
@@ -2069,6 +2069,18 @@ gcc version 4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-33)
          of the container and so conflict with other accesses to the container).
       </para>
 
+      <para>
+	 The Copy-On-Write <classname>std::string</classname> implementation
+	 used before GCC 5 (and with
+	 <link linkend="manual.intro.using.abi">_GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI=0</link>)
+	 is not a standard container and does not conform to the data race
+	 avoidance rules described above. For the Copy-On-Write
+	 <classname>std::string</classname>, non-const member functions such as
+	 <function>begin()</function> are considered to be modifying accesses
+	 and so must not be used concurrently with any other accesses to the
+	 same object.
+      </para>
+
       <para>Programs which follow the rules above will not encounter data
          races in library code, even when using library types which share
          state between distinct objects.  In the example below the