From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Martin von Loewis <martin@mira.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de>
To: carlo@runaway.xs4all.nl
Cc: egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: New STL implementation from SGI
Date: Tue, 07 Jul 1998 12:51:00 -0000
Message-id: <199807071937.VAA00419@mira.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de>
References: <199807071016.MAA01518@jolan.ppro>
X-SW-Source: 1998-07/msg00272.html

> I'd like to see the latest STL be added to egcs-1.1 too.
> Or at least we should try it, and see if anything obvious
> breaks.

I have a concern about binary compatibility. Most likely,
instantiations of templates will introduce slight
incompatibilities. So people might have to recompile even more stuff,
or run into non-obvious traps.

So I'd rather keep the incompatible changes together, so that people
will surely know at link time that things changed, instead of breaking
everything at every release.

Of course, there are claims that egcs g++ 1.1 will be incompatible on
some platforms, anyway, so this might not be an issue.

Martin