Fwd: [ME] About support for gcc2.8 and egcs

[Daniel Egger]

Hiho!

 I see this too as a rather concern... if you need the code for
 this problemsituation, simply let me know and I'll take a bit
 to this list....


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Subject: [ME] About support for gcc2.8 and egcs
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 13:28:10 -0500
From: Philippe Lavoie <lavoie@zeus.genie.uottawa.ca>


Here's the update on converting my library to egcs.

Ok, moved some code around and at one point egcs was happy. Then I
figure out that if you remove warnings by adding <> after a name for a
friend function then a program doesn't see the function anymore. This
is so odd that I tried to see if something to this effect was in the
documentation and here it is.

I found this in the feature list of C++ for egcs


Still not supported:

     + Member class templates.
     + Template template parameters.
     + Template friends.



The last one being the culprit. 

I need friend template functions even if it's just for the << and >>
operators. 

So in conclusion to all of you guys wanting 2.8.1 support. Well no can
do. They dropped template friends support. Talk to your gcc
representative and ask to get it back :)

I wich there was a method to be noticed when it's ok. For now I'll
check new releases of egcs and hope that one of them gets the support
back. 

Phil

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Servus,
       Daniel