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From: Joe Buck <jbuck@synopsys.com>
To: martin@mira.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (Martin von Loewis)
Cc: carlo@runaway.xs4all.nl, egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: New STL implementation from SGI
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 1998 09:58:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <199807081547.IAA06604@atrus.synopsys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199807071937.VAA00419@mira.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de>

> > 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.

I'm afraid that egcs-1.1 will already break binary compatibility on at
least some platforms (linux-glibc2), because of thread-safe exceptions.

> 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.

The real issue (whenever we decide to pick up the new STL) is the string
class: do we use the SGI one, the existing one, or the one Ulrich Drepper
is working on?



  parent reply	other threads:[~1998-07-08  9:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-07-02  7:08 Peter Simons
1998-07-06  4:08 ` Jeffrey A Law
1998-07-06  8:09   ` H.J. Lu
1998-07-06 14:48     ` Jeffrey A Law
1998-07-06 22:11       ` Ben Scherrey
1998-07-07  0:14         ` Jeffrey A Law
     [not found]         ` <6669.899795405.cygnus.egcs@hurl.cygnus.com>
1998-07-08 16:34           ` Nathan Myers
1998-07-06 18:52     ` Alex Buell
1998-07-07  5:29       ` Carlo Wood
1998-07-07 10:14         ` B. James Phillippe
1998-07-07 12:51         ` Martin von Loewis
1998-07-07 22:54           ` H.J. Lu
1998-07-08  9:58           ` Joe Buck [this message]
     [not found]           ` <199807081547.IAA06604.cygnus.egcs@atrus.synopsys.com>
1998-07-09 11:18             ` Ulrich Drepper
1998-07-09 17:02               ` Joe Buck
1998-07-09 17:40                 ` Ulrich Drepper
1998-07-10  6:04                 ` Pieter Nagel
1998-07-10 13:32                   ` Joe Buck
     [not found]                 ` <Pine.LNX.3.96.980710103559.18309h-100000.cygnus.egcs@basilisk>
1998-07-10 20:04                   ` Nathan Myers
     [not found]               ` <199807100002.RAA10346.cygnus.egcs@atrus.synopsys.com>
1998-07-10 16:49                 ` Nathan Myers
1998-07-07  1:12     ` Joe Buck
1998-07-06 18:10       ` H.J. Lu
1998-07-07  7:59         ` auto_ptr, new warning? (was: New STL implementation from SGI) Carlo Wood
1998-07-07 13:05           ` Joe Buck
     [not found] <x7sokk1h55.fsf.cygnus.egcs@peti.gmd.de>
1998-07-02 15:15 ` New STL implementation from SGI Nathan Myers
1998-07-03 12:21   ` Andi Kleen
1998-07-05 15:40     ` Martin von Loewis
     [not found] ` <k2d8bm4x5k.fsf.cygnus.egcs@zero.aec.at>
1998-07-05 19:46   ` Nathan Myers
1998-07-08  3:16     ` Gerald Pfeifer
1998-07-08 16:34       ` Branko Cibej
1998-07-07 22:54 Josh Stern
1998-07-11  6:31 Josh Stern
1998-07-13  1:48 Ross Smith
1998-07-13  8:40 ` Thomas Kunert
1998-07-13 15:28   ` Joe Buck
1998-07-13 17:29 Mike Stump
1998-07-14  8:41 ` Joe Buck
1998-07-13 17:29 Mike Stump

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