Re: New STL implementation from SGI

[Martin von Loewis <martin at mira dot isdn dot cs dot tu-berlin dot de>]

> I'd like to see the latest STL be added to egcs-1.1 too.
> Or at least we should try it, and see if anything obvious
> breaks.

I have a concern about binary compatibility. Most likely,
instantiations of templates will introduce slight
incompatibilities. So people might have to recompile even more stuff,
or run into non-obvious traps.

So I'd rather keep the incompatible changes together, so that people
will surely know at link time that things changed, instead of breaking
everything at every release.

Of course, there are claims that egcs g++ 1.1 will be incompatible on
some platforms, anyway, so this might not be an issue.

Martin