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  1. From: austern@isolde.mti.sgi.com (Matt Austern)
  2. Message-ID: <AUSTERN.96Mar18094301@isolde.mti.sgi.com>
  3. X-Original-Date: 18 Mar 1996 17:43:01 GMT
  4. Path: in2.uu.net!bounce-back
  5. Date: 18 Mar 96 23:38:06 GMT
  6. Approved: fjh@cs.mu.oz.au
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  8. Newsgroups: comp.std.c++
  9. Subject: Re: Conforming compilers should compile STL?
  10. Organization: SGI
  11. References: <QQahcw08893.199603150939@relay2.UU.NET> <4ic32v$ah@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
  12. Reply-To: austern@cardboard.mti.sgi.com
  13. In-Reply-To: fjh@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU's message of 16 Mar 96 07:42:01 GMT
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  19. In article <4ic32v$ah@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> fjh@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Hender
  20. son) writes:
  21.  
  22. > I think currently there may be no existing compilers which are
  23. > capable of compiling any version of STL which fully conforms to
  24. > the draft standard.  So compiler vendors ship with slightly
  25. > cut-down implementations of STL, such as the HP version, which do
  26. > not quite conform to the draft standard, but which are easier to compile.
  27.  
  28. In particular, note that the STL (both the version described in the
  29. original Stepanov-Lee paper and the version described in the ANSI/ISO
  30. committee draft) relies on member templates and on partial
  31. specialization.  I don't know of any currently shipping compilers that
  32. support either of those features.
  33. -- 
  34. Matt Austern
  35. SGI: MTI Compilers Group
  36. austern@isolde.mti.sgi.com
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