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Re: relax requirements for vector==
- To: libstdc++ at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Subject: Re: relax requirements for vector==
- From: Nathan Myers <ncm at nospam dot cantrip dot org>
- Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 18:50:37 -0800
- References: <200103062346.f26Nkdb07337@fillmore.constant.com>
- Reply-To: libstdc++ at gcc dot gnu dot org
On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 03:46:39PM -0800, Benjamin Kosnik wrote:
>
> Instead of relaxing requirements, perhaps a more sane thing to do is
> to make the concept checking code a flag you have to turn on (at
> configure time?), and not something that is forced on everybody's code.
>
> There's been some talk about updating the concept checking code to
> something recent, and enabling it at configure time.
>
> Anybody who has strong feelings, please voice them...
OK. I don't think we do anybody a favor by compiling accidentally
nonconforming, unportable code. That's the Microsoft approach.
It locks people in. If somebody wants to compile code that is
incompatible with the standard, let them say so explicitly.
Nathan Myers
ncm at cantrip dot org