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Re: victory! I have a working crosscompiler!
On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 03:48:55PM -0500, Adam Megacz wrote:
> So, popping back up one level to my original question, we can assume
> that every platform will have some sort of c++ library. However, will
> libstdc++-v3 always be able to fill this role (unlike glibc), or is
> libstdc++-v3 only suitable for POSIX systems (as is glibc)?
Right now libstdc++-v3 assumes a lot of POSIX semantics, because nobody has
contributed code to allow it to do otherwise. In the major cases (e.g.,
underlying I/O library), hooks and wrappers are in place to support something
completely non-POSIX, but nobody has yet taken advantage of them[*].
[*] And told us about it.[**]
[**] "And lived to tell about it" might be more appropriate. :-)
Phil
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