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Re: ANSI C++
- To: lwerzinger at krones dot de (Lothar Werzinger)
- Subject: Re: ANSI C++
- From: Joe Buck <jbuck at synopsys dot com>
- Date: Tue, 25 Nov 97 9:18:57 PST
- Cc: egcs at cygnus dot com
> I downloaded the Snapshot from 971114 and trued to compile a program
> that uses the new features of ANSI C++
>
> -- #includes with no '.h'
This is implemented for some headers but not for others. Several folks
have donated patches to provide the missing ones, but it seems the patches
haven't been accepted.
> -- namespaces
Namespaces are not implemented, except that
using namespace std;
is accepted and ignored, so that ANSI/ISO programs that use it will build
(but the standard classes are really in the global namespace).
> -- the new iostream library.
This has not been done yet.
> and it failed to compile, as the iostream library is still the old one.
> So my question is: Is there already a new iostream library for the gnu
> compiler that works as described in the ANSI draft?
I understand that someone has written one, but it's not going to be ready
for the first egcs release.