Mail Archives: cygwin-developers/2001/10/03/21:36:06
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 11:32:10AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
>To: <cygwin-developers AT cygwin DOT com>
>Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 11:29 AM
>Subject: Re: C++ templates and cygwin?
>
>
>> On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 11:22:40AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
>>I have nothing against templates as long as they don't cause increases
>>in code size or decreases in speed and I am not sure why they would.
>
>I've heard that some compilers don't handle templates well at all -
>I'll do a little digging into gcc 2.95.cygwin :].
>
>>The only other problem I can think of is that there may be problems
>>with templates in older g++'s.
>
>do you mean the STL, or handling of templates? I'd have thought that
>older g++'s were irrelevant as cygwin is built with a patched gcc
>anyway - can that not be set as a minimum requirement?
Both, actually. I thought that there were problems with templates in
general and STL in particular. Or maybe incompatibilities is a better
way of describing the problem.
Now, I'm wondering if there were code size issues too. Is it possible
that using STL will pull in lots of extra unneeded cruft?
cgf
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