From: khan AT xraylith DOT wisc DOT edu (Mumit Khan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Templates, namespaces
Date: 30 Jan 1999 02:21:40 GMT
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In article <3 DOT 0 DOT 6 DOT 32 DOT 19990129203823 DOT 008d05c0 AT pop DOT netaddress DOT com>,
Paul Derbyshire  <djgpp AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
>
>>The C++ language conformance in EGCS is better than 90% of the commercial
>>offerings right now. The standard library, and the sore spot ;-), is 
>>being worked on. 
>
>Sore spot? you mean, templates?
>

Sorry, typo on my part. I mean to say ``The standard library, the sore
spot, ...''.

Templates work very well in EGCS. As I had said before, it's the object
file format, not the compiler. HPUX has the same problem, so do SunOS4.x
and a host of others. ELF and PE-COFF are exceptions rather than the
rule.

I believe someone is/was working to get something similar to "weak"
symbols in the COFF format used by djgpp, but I don't know the status
of the project, nor do I know if it's feasible.

Regards,
Mumit