Re: <bitset> in egcs?

[Richard Dubois <richard at SLAC dot Stanford dot EDU>]

 SGI has indeed implemented bitset. It appears that it will be included in an
upcoming version of egcs. It is already in the egcs CVS repository; it's just
not in 1.03 or 1.1 yet!

Thanks,

Richard

Kühl, Dietmar wrote:

> Hi,
>
> >  bitset is a class that handles bit strings in a machine-independent
> > fashion. It includes all the manipulation you'd want to do too.
> >
> A long time ago I started to implement 'bitset'. I remember that it was
> rather complete (I think the I/O operators were still missing). However,
> I haven't touched the code since then and I built it using gcc-2.7.2. If
> you still want to give it a try, you can download it from
> <ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-konstanz.de/pub/algo/personal/kuehl/bitset.tgz>.
>
> I implemented this code when I was at the University of Constance and
> I filed a copyright assignment at the FSF for libstdc++ at this time, plus
> the thingy needed from my "employer" (ie. the University). Thus, I think
> this code can be integrated into libstdc++ if there is any interest in doing
> this.
>
> However, AFAIK, the current version of SGI STL also includes an
> implementation of 'bitset'. If there is an implementation, this is probably
> more suitable than my implementation...
>
> dk



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