Re: std::cout and long long problem

[Phil Edwards <pedwards at disaster dot jaj dot com>]

On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 11:16:27PM -0800, Chip Salzenberg wrote:
> According to Alexandre Oliva:
> > On Feb 11, 2001, Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> > > 'long long' is not a C++ standard type.  You need to
> > > --enable-long-long at configure-time.
> > 
> > Err...  But since GCC supports it as an extension by default,
> > shouldn't libstdc++ support it by default too?
> 
> You would think so, wouldn't you?  But for some reason that argument
> hasn't carried with the current maintainers.  :-(

[Note to self:  add this to the FAQ.]

Unless my copy'n'paste fu is weak, this

    http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/libstdc++/2000-12/subjects.html#00192

should be a list of 16 messages from two months ago; the announcement that
we would default to off, and 15 followups arguing about it, including
a fairly detailed explanation of the difficulties from Benjamin about
halfway down the list.

I don't think we can turn on support by default unless the situation has
changed in the last two months.


Phil

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