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Re: [v3] libstdc++ vs. icc 8.1
On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 10:52:48PM -0500, Benjamin Kosnik wrote:
>
> >I have a question why should we put in workarounds in libstdc++ for ICC
> >at all.
>
> Because libstdc++ was wrong. It's fixed now. Sometimes, having more than
> one compiler run through the same sources is a good thing.
I'll go farther: having someone willing to run our code against another
compiler and report oddities is worth quite a lot of hassle and clutter.
Ideally we would take this information and use it to make regression
tests so that Gcc would (eventually) be equipped to report the same
problems their compiler did.
Nathan Myers
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