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Re: GCC viciously beaten by ICC in trig test!
Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@integrable-solutions.net> writes:
> They are no more than C libraries are tied to compilers. In fact, in
> the old days, libg++ used to come in a separate package. More to the
> point, you have a huge amount of C++ libraries out there that are no
> more tied to the details of compilers.
OK, noted.
Should we spin off libstdc++-v3? Why or why not?
> | G++ has always been distributed with a C++
> | library--it used to be called libg++, then libstdc++, and now
> | libstdc++-v3.
>
> No. The package libg++ was distributed separately. Only with EGCS,
> did we stop that separation.
libg++ was distributed separately, but my recollection is that it was
pretty closely tied to the g++ release cycle. After all, g++ used to
be released separately too, but that didn't mean that it wasn't
closely tied to gcc.
But I admit that I may be wrong, and that these details are
unimportant today.
Ian