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Re: C++, export for templates (was: C++ standard)
- From: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at integrable-solutions dot net>
- To: Ryan Mansfield <RMansfield at qnx dot com>
- Cc: Tarjei Knapstad <tarjei dot knapstad at gmail dot com>, gcc at gnu dot org
- Date: 06 Feb 2006 22:42:10 +0100
- Subject: Re: C++, export for templates (was: C++ standard)
- References: <3518719F06577C4F85DA618E3C37AB9103EE1F26@nimbus.ott.qnx.com>
Ryan Mansfield <RMansfield@qnx.com> writes:
| > and that paper was debunked when it was presented at the ISO C++
| > committee in April 2003 at Oxford, UK. EDG is very willing to give
| > advice (based on their experience) to anyone interested in
| > implementing export in, say GCC. (They want to see the best
| > implementation of export for C++.)
| >
| > -- Gaby
|
| Well, my point was that Herb Sutter had just written a paper on it, and it
| was the EDG guys who had done the implementation. Even though Sutter's paper
| was debunked, do EDG no longer stand behind their 2.5-3yr estimate?
You'd have to ask them.
That paper has done more harm than any good.
-- Gaby