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Re: GCC viciously beaten by ICC in trig test!
On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 12:27:54PM -0500, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
>
> Should we spin off libstdc++-v3? Why or why not?
It used to be its own package. Now it's tied very tightly to specific
versions of the compiler, much like libg++ was.
> > | G++ has always been distributed with a C++
> > | library--it used to be called libg++, then libstdc++, and now
> > | libstdc++-v3.
> >
> > No. The package libg++ was distributed separately. Only with EGCS,
> > did we stop that separation.
>
> libg++ was distributed separately, but my recollection is that it was
> pretty closely tied to the g++ release cycle. After all, g++ used to
> be released separately too, but that didn't mean that it wasn't
> closely tied to gcc.
Yep. libg++ had the same set of version numbers as g++. You had to
install matching versions or things would break, sometimes silently.
If we were to package libstdc++-v3 separately, the same would be true,
so there's no real advantage in doing so.
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