Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 09:20:06 -0800 (PST) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: obrien@NUXI.com Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gcc Message-ID: <199903011720.JAA49016@vashon.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <19990228233542.A4444@relay.nuxi.com> References: <19990228225739.F3380@relay.nuxi.com> <32636.920273557@zippy.cdrom.com>
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In article <19990228233542.A4444@relay.nuxi.com>,
David O'Brien <obrien@NUXI.com> wrote:
> > guess we shoot for libstdc++ as the "minimum requirements" and perhaps
> > provide libg++ as well (not necessarily initially) just for the
>
> Just make libg++ a port. :-)
Yes, or abandon it entirely. We surely don't need it in our base
system. Even for ports, I'd be surprised to find anything useful that
still relied on libg++. Any software that still uses libg++ is almost
certainly unmaintained, and uncompilable with modern C++ compilers.
(I.e., it does not conform to the C++ standard.) Libg++ is _ancient_.
It pre-dated templates even.
John
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