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[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < 199809021654.SAA06376@jolan.ppro >you write:
  > | http://egcs.cygnus.com/egcs-1.1/egcs-1.1.html
  > | 
  > | Has the current announcement.  I do not expect it to change significantly
  > .
  > 
  > In http://egcs.cygnus.com/egcs-1.1/c++features.html
  > there is a section saying:
  > 
  > 
  >   Still not supported:
  > 
  >        + Member class templates.
  >        + Template friends.
  > 
  > 
  > I believe this to be incorrect?
  > At least Template friends are supported.
Both are supported.  You're reading old news.

The NEWS file is just that -- accumulated NEWS over the years.  The
info at the top always overrides later info.  In this case you'll find

*** Changes since EGCS 1.0:

[ ... ]

* Massive template improvements:
  + member template classes are supported.
  + template friends are supported.
  + template template parameters are supported.
  + local classes in templates are supported.
  + lots of bugs fixed.

[ ... ]

*** Changes in EGCS 1.0:

[ ... ]

  Still not supported:

     + Member class templates.
     + Template friends.

jeff