friend templates in gcc-2.8.0 & egcs-1.0.1

[Alexandre Oliva]

Levente Farkas writes:

> 1, from where can I know things like that ?

It is Standard C++, but I'm not sure there are any books that cover
this already.  You might buy a copy of the C++ Standard :-)

But I'd rather have this particular issue in the FAQ.

> So is there any backward compatible solution ???

You may use -fguiding-decls to have a backward-compatible behavior,
but have in mind that you'll not be programming standard C++.  The
best you can do is to use SGI STL-like compatibility macros.  Take a
look at stl_config.h, as installed by egcs and gcc, and modify your
code so that it will compile with both outdated compilers and
Standard-compliant ones.

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