How to choose STL library?

[Phil Edwards]

On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 03:08:45PM -0400, Liu, Guangsheng wrote:
>   There are variety of STL implementation.  Currently, I am using RedHat
> 6.2, gcc 2.95.2, libc.so.6.  I can include something like <map> <vector> and
> build it with no special option with g++. It works,  what this really means
> to me.  Does this mean the STL implementation is inside libc.so.6, or gcc
> compiler somewhere. 
>   By the way, I know stdc++ is implementing STL (part of C++ standard). Does
> this mean that I can replace stdc++ with libc.so.6 (assuming libc.so.6
> implementing STL) in order to use STL inside stdc++? and how?

libc.so has nothing to do with the STL.  The implementation is mostly
in the header files themselves since we have no 'export' keyword yet,
and in libstdc++.so.

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