ANSI/C++ Standard.

[Joe Buck]

On Wed, Feb 11, 1998 at 04:32:26PM -0800, Chris Dern wrote:
> What exactly happens now to the egcs compiler, now that the Standard had
> been accepted and according to the signs webpage, will most likely get
> ratified by the end of march? I'm just wondering when we will begin to see
> "homogeneous" C++ compilers and libs. Is there and end in sight?

egcs (well, OK, Cygnus) is represented on the standards committee, so they
have known what the standard will say for some time now.

egcs will, over time, converge to the standard.  There is still a lot of
work to do, though.  In the compiler proper, templates are now pretty
close to the standard, modulo remaining bugs (thanks to Mark Mitchell and
Kriang Lerdsuwanakij for contributing important missing pieces).  The
biggest missing item is namespaces.  A number of important library classes
are also missing, though there have been contributions, and then the whole
library must be moved to the std namespace.