template problem with 971016

[dave madden]

 =>From: Joe Buck <jbuck@synopsys.com>
 =>
 =>> I've encountered a problem with templates: if you try to insert() a a
 =>> key-value pair<> into a multimap<>, the signature selection code won't
 =>> treat a pair<k,v> as an acceptable match for the pair<const k,v> that
 =>> it wants.
 =>
 =>No, you've encountered a problem because you're using the wrong definition
 =>of pair<>, one that you've gotten from SGI instead of using the EGCS
 =>version ...
 =>Your code works fine when you link against the provided headers.

OK, thanks!

 =>> BTW, should I do anything special to get egcs to work with
 =>> libg++-2.7.2?  I get warnings from egcs about the new() and delete()
 =>> declared in g++-include/new.h.
 =>
 =>Why would you want to do this?
 =>...
 =>If you need stuff in the old libg++, you're
 =>better off starting with libg++-2.8.0b6...

Actually, I'm not (currently) using anything in libg++, but the old
header files are seen by egcs++ due to search paths, and the old
declarations of new & delete conflict.  I'll try libg++-2.8.0; is
there any reason this isn't linked into the egcs area (either via
symlink or note in a README), since it's easily foreseeable that an
egcs user might be interested in it?

regards,
d.