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- From: fjh@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson)
- Message-ID: <4ic32v$ah@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
- X-Original-Date: 15 Mar 1996 15:41:19 GMT
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- Date: 16 Mar 96 07:42:01 GMT
- Approved: fjh@cs.mu.oz.au
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- Subject: Re: Conforming compilers should compile STL?
- Organization: Comp Sci, University of Melbourne
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- mslamm@pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il (Zvi Lamm) writes:
-
- >What version of the STL source is going to be in the standard?
-
- You question indicates some confusion between the standard itself,
- which will specify the interface to STL, and implementations of the
- standard. The standard itself won't contain any version of the STL source.
- Rather, C++ implementations which aim to conform to the standard will
- come with some version of the STL source code.
-
- >I ask this since when I asked IBM whether C++/370 will compile the HP STL
- >source, I was told to go ahead and check it out myself.
- >Now since the compiler is supposed to conform to the proposed standard, I
- >thought it MUST compile the STL.
-
- What makes you think that the compiler is supposed to conform to the
- proposed standard?
-
- The fact is that there are NO existing compilers which fully conform
- to the draft proposed standard. Remember, it is only a draft, and
- it is still subject to change. Even when the final version of the
- standard is published, I think it will take compiler vendors a while to
- produce conforming implementations (or at least almost-conforming --
- all sufficiently complex programs contain bugs).
-
- I think currently there may be no existing compilers which are
- capable of compiling any version of STL which fully conforms to
- the draft standard. So compiler vendors ship with slightly
- cut-down implementations of STL, such as the HP version, which do
- not quite conform to the draft standard, but which are easier to compile.
- Such versions avoid the use of more recently-introduced features such
- as template template arguments, default template arguments, and so
- forth.
-
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