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- Subject: Re: Conforming compilers should compile STL?
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- Subject: Re: Conforming compilers should compile STL?
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- From: mslamm@pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il (Zvi Lamm)
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- Fergus Henderson (fjh@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU) wrote:
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- : What makes you think that the compiler is supposed to conform to the
- : proposed standard?
-
- Of course it doesn't conform to the standard -as it is still a draft. But
- it is rather obvious that being conforming is a goal.
-
- : The fact is that there are NO existing compilers which fully
- conform.
- : 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.
-
- You might have noticed that I asked IBM about exactly this HP source... :-)
-
- : Such versions avoid the use of more recently-introduced features such
- : as template template arguments, default template arguments, and so
- : forth.
-
- Does there exist a comprehensive list of these "recent" changes needed
- for compiling THE STL, or should I try to figure them out myself?
-
- --
- Ehud Lamm mslamm@pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il
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