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Re: SGI STL



> 	Is it a painless retrofit to put
> 	the current STL on a current egcs?

The current STL is in the egcs development tree. It's just binary
compatibility that prevents it from getting into 1.1.2 - we don't
want everybody to recompile everything after a subminor release.

> The STL is quite important to me, and I'm willing
> to do what I can to make it play friendly with
> egcs.

If you absolutely want to use the current STL with 1.1.2, instead of
using development versions until 1.2 is released, you could certainly
have a look at the changes Jason made when he updated the STL version.
CVS knows all about it.

> I'm looking more at hacking the SGI STL, as opposed
> to jumping into the GNU (?) standard-library effort
> which seems to be building a conforming STL/Standard Lib
> from scratch.

libstdc++ v3 will be based on SGI STL, as a literal copy. Changes made
to it are integrated back into the SGI code base. I think there was
some formal agreement between SGI people and egcs people about doing
it that way.

Regards,
Martin