Re: STL with gcc3

[Phil Edwards <phil at jaj dot com>]

On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 11:39:53AM -0700, Matt Austern wrote:
> On Wednesday, July 17, 2002, at 11:35 AM, Ji Li wrote:
> >
> > 	I believe there must be a way to make gcc-3.0.4 backward
> > compatable but just could find it. Would you please point the way for 
> > me?
> 
> You really don't want to do that.  The standard says that everything
> in the Standard Library is supposed to be in namespace std.  Other
> compilers have conformed to the standard for years.  You should
> change your code, for portability if for no other reason.

Matt is correct; your code is not C++.  To aid in making the transition, gcc
3.x lets you include <backward/iostream.h>.  But there is no comparable header
for <string>, since there was never really a pre-standard string class.  So
you'll have to edit your code anyway; may as well fix the I/O names as well.


Phil

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