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Re: iterator in egcs implementation of STL
- To: Gabriel dot Dos-Reis at dptmaths dot ens-cachan dot fr (Gabriel Dos Reis)
- Subject: Re: iterator in egcs implementation of STL
- From: Joe Buck <jbuck at synopsys dot com>
- Date: Sat, 25 Oct 97 20:50:53 PDT
- Cc: egcs at cygnus dot com
> I noticed that despite of the fact that egcs supports partial
> template specialization, it sticks with the out-of-date SGI's
> implementation of iterators (and other standard classes) which is, in
> many points, non conforming to the draft. Is there a good reason to do
> so?
The fact that all our code would break if we changed it? :-)
Well, seriously, the answer is that none of us are maintaining STL,
we are just using SGI's version -- so I suppose the question should
go to the SGI STL folks asking why *they* haven't fixed this.
There would probably need to be some kind of backward compatibility
flag.