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Date:      Sun, 28 Feb 1999 22:57:39 -0800
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: gcc
Message-ID:  <19990228225739.F3380@relay.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <31146.920241925@zippy.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Sun, Feb 28, 1999 at 02:45:25PM -0800
References:  <19990228131503.A1563@relay.nuxi.com> <31146.920241925@zippy.cdrom.com>

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> > It is time to dump libg++.  Once EGCS is in the tree, I'll make a port of
> > the libg++ meant for post g++ 2.8 compilers.
> 
> What's the exact division between libg++ and libstdc++?  I'm sure
> I'm not the only person confused by this one. :)

libg++ was a set of "standard" classes for strings, lists, etc. created
by FSF to help others from inventing the wheel.  Stroustrup has commented
that one of his bigger mistakes was releasing C++ on the world w/o a
standard set of classes.  (where as Eiffel, et. al. did)

The ISO C++ standards committee realized this and decided to come up with
a standard set of basic C++ data structures.  AT&T's iostream and HP
Labs' STL (standard templet library) ended up becoming part of this
standard set.

Thus libg++ classes are a purely FSF class library that shouldn't be used
for any new code development.  The current libg++ only contains what was
left after the ISO stdlibc++ stuff was gutted.

-- 
-- David    (obrien@NUXI.com  -or-  obrien@FreeBSD.org)


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