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Re: documentation about files
- To: "Martin v. Loewis" <martin at loewis dot home dot cs dot tu-berlin dot de>
- Subject: Re: documentation about files
- From: <llewelly at dbritsch dot dsl dot xmission dot com>
- Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 16:13:24 -0600 (MDT)
- Cc: lfarkas at mindmaker dot hu, libstdc++ at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Martin v. Loewis wrote:
> > is there any minimal documentation about the files in the current stdc++?
>
> Yes, and no. Yes, there is plenty of documentation on Standard C++; I
> recommend the 3rd edition of Stroustrup's book, and the standard is
> also available.
If you want documentation on the standard C++ libraries, Austern's
_Generic Programming and the STL_ is (in my opinion) the best there is,
though it does not document things like <string>, <iostream>, which are
part of the standard C++ library, but not part of the STL.
> g++ implements the standards as close as feasible, so
> that any deviations would be considered bugs. From that point of view,
> there is no need for extra documentation.
>
> No, g++ does not ship with online documentation about libstdc++. The
> primary reason for that is that nobody has written anything. When you
> do, please send patches to this list, or gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org.
>
> Regards,
> Martin
>
>