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?
next prev 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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