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Re: the standard of c++ supported by gcc
- From: Neil Booth <neil at daikokuya dot co dot uk>
- To: Robert Dewar <dewar at gnat dot com>
- Cc: phil at jaj dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, luda_s at sina dot com
- Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 08:26:23 +0100
- Subject: Re: the standard of c++ supported by gcc
- References: <20020919005753.23E28F28F5@nile.gnat.com>
Robert Dewar wrote:-
> <<EDG claim they do, though their preprocessor is non-conforming in
> quite a few pedantic ways I've found. e.g. it fails on
> >>
>
> A good reference here is the comparative study of C++ compilers in
> Dr. Dobbs. g++ and EDG both do very well, g++ just slightly ahead
> over all, in conforming to the standard, but no compiler they test
> is fully conformant.
If we're talking about the same article, I didn't think that much
of it. It only took examples from the standard text, which
necessarily biases coverage somewhat, and never took account of
defect report resolutions, which G++ certainly does.
Neil.