Re: Announcing libstdc++-2.90.4

[Kevin Atkinson <kevinatk@home.com>]

Benjamin Kosnik wrote:

> What works: (noted with the chapter # of the ISO-14882 standard)
> -----------
>  - exceptions, op new etc. (18, 19)
>  - SGI-STL release 3.12 utilities, containers, algorithms, and iterators.
>    (20,23,24,25), and ostreambuf_iterator<>. Plus fixes for auto_ptr,
>    and an interator class for vector and string.
>  - basic_string<> (21)
>  - locale, some facets (ctype, num_put, collate), stubs for the rest. (22)
>  - Gabriel dos Reis's valarray<>, and Drepper's complex<>.  (However,
>    note that numeric_limits<> is not tailored for your target.  You
>    must do that by hand.) (26)
>  - ios_base, basic_ios<>, basic_streambuf<>, basic_stringbuf<>,
>    basic_filebuf<>, ostream<>, operator<< for integers, strings. (27)
> 
> What doesn't:
> -------------
>  - too many parts of istream, op>>, op<<(double&) etc. (27)
>  - Most facet implementations are stubs. (22)
>  - Almost no optimizations for small-footprint/low-overhead. (22,27)
>  - It has not been fully audited for standard conformance in the areas
>    that do work--check out the testsuite directory for an idea of the
>    limitations of the current implementation.
>  - It has not been made thread-safe.
>  - There has been some work to wrap the C headers in namespace std::, but
>    it may not be complete yet, and C macros are not shadowed. Please consult
>    the mailing list archives for more information.

It looks like most things are implemented.  Is there a chance that it
will be ready in time for egcs 1.2?  That would be really really nice.  

Also do you know when you plan on merging libstdc++ in with the rest of
the egcs tree?



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