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- From: austern@isolde.mti.sgi.com (Matt Austern)
- Message-ID: <AUSTERN.96Mar18094301@isolde.mti.sgi.com>
- X-Original-Date: 18 Mar 1996 17:43:01 GMT
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- Date: 18 Mar 96 23:38:06 GMT
- Approved: fjh@cs.mu.oz.au
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- Newsgroups: comp.std.c++
- Subject: Re: Conforming compilers should compile STL?
- Organization: SGI
- References: <QQahcw08893.199603150939@relay2.UU.NET> <4ic32v$ah@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
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- In-Reply-To: fjh@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU's message of 16 Mar 96 07:42:01 GMT
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- In article <4ic32v$ah@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> fjh@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Hender
- son) writes:
-
- > 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.
-
- In particular, note that the STL (both the version described in the
- original Stepanov-Lee paper and the version described in the ANSI/ISO
- committee draft) relies on member templates and on partial
- specialization. I don't know of any currently shipping compilers that
- support either of those features.
- --
- Matt Austern
- SGI: MTI Compilers Group
- austern@isolde.mti.sgi.com
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