Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 22:57:39 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gcc Message-ID: <19990228225739.F3380@relay.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <31146.920241925@zippy.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Sun, Feb 28, 1999 at 02:45:25PM -0800 References: <19990228131503.A1563@relay.nuxi.com> <31146.920241925@zippy.cdrom.com>
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> > It is time to dump libg++. Once EGCS is in the tree, I'll make a port of > > the libg++ meant for post g++ 2.8 compilers. > > What's the exact division between libg++ and libstdc++? I'm sure > I'm not the only person confused by this one. :) libg++ was a set of "standard" classes for strings, lists, etc. created by FSF to help others from inventing the wheel. Stroustrup has commented that one of his bigger mistakes was releasing C++ on the world w/o a standard set of classes. (where as Eiffel, et. al. did) The ISO C++ standards committee realized this and decided to come up with a standard set of basic C++ data structures. AT&T's iostream and HP Labs' STL (standard templet library) ended up becoming part of this standard set. Thus libg++ classes are a purely FSF class library that shouldn't be used for any new code development. The current libg++ only contains what was left after the ISO stdlibc++ stuff was gutted. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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