bastring.cc

[Jason Merrill]

>>>>> Alexandre Oliva <oliva@dcc.unicamp.br> writes:

 > Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com> writes:
 >> Is user code supposed to be able to include this file directly?

 > As Jason, wrote, this is not supposed to work with the current and
 > correct approach of egcs to include bastring.cc in bastring.h.
 > Unfortunately, it was necessary to include it on some platforms such
 > as IRIX 5.2, SunOS 4.1.3 and Cygnus/GNU-Win32, that would not work
 > without bastring.cc explicitly included in every translation unit that
 > would require some symbol defined within it.

Huh?  Why?  Why didn't anyone mention this to the g++ team?

Jason