From: hgfernan@usp.br Subject: Re: Cygwin32 & C++ standard 13 Jan 1998 17:58:26 -0800 Message-ID: <9801130213.AA55566.cygnus.gnu-win32@spider.uspnet.usp.br> References: <9801010055.AA26764@modi.xraylith.wisc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT To: Mumit Khan , gnu-win32@cygnus.com Cc: "Fernandes, Hilton" On 31 Dec 97 at 18:55, Mumit Khan wrote: > Depends on what you mean by cygwin32 C++. If you mean the original > b18 distribution, it's horribly old, so all bets are off if you're > looking at the latest draft that was approved as the standard. On > the other hand, the egcs distribution is pretty close, and in fact, > close enough to (almost) compete with some top quality commercial > compilers such as Kai and others based on the EDG front end. > > Also note that G++ now uses unmodified SGI STL distribution, which > means that as SGI updates its implementation to match the standard, > G++ will follow automatically. > I'd like to thank all GNU and egcs developers -- particularly Mumit Khan -- for the nice job they're doing. For a GNU price, one is able to have an excellent compiler, better than hugely priced commercial ones. Amazing and laudable. Now that the C++ drafts seem to have stabilized and such a nice compiler is available we C++ programmers can begin to try to tame the new C++ beast. Thanks for the nice Christmas gift! Regards, ++Hilton ------------------- Hilton Fernandes email: hgfernan@usp.br www: http://www.lsi.usp.br/~hilton.html (inactive) M. Sc. Student of Parallel Distributed Applications at Escola Politecnica (Polytechic School) University of S. Paulo - Brazil - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".