Re: g++ namespace std & BUG?

[Carlo Wood <carlo at alinoe dot com>]

On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 09:48:16AM -0500, Mark Wall wrote:
> Hello!  I was excited to successfully install gcc-3.0.1, but now I
> have compiling problems with many lines of old code.  None of the STL
> functions like "cout" work without explicitly declaring "using namespace
> std;".  I can live with that.  PROBLEM: Other cstring functions do not 
> work properly (e.g. "strcmp" do not return 0/1 when there is
> match/nomatch).  Previous gcc versions compiled this correctly.
> Unfortunately my searches for a  solution are futile.
> 
> Please help.
> 
> Mark Wall

Either use:

  std::cout << "blah";

or

using std::cout;
// ...
  cout << "blah";

It's bad coding style to do

using namespace std;
// ...
  cout << "blah";

I prefer method one ;).

For the strcmp stuff, do:

#include <cstring>	// C++ header equivalent to the C header string.h.
// ...
  std::strcmp()

-- 
Carlo Wood <carlo@alinoe.com>