From owner-freebsd-current Sun Feb 28 22:58:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BB8515228 for ; Sun, 28 Feb 1999 22:58:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.2/8.9.1) id WAA04314; Sun, 28 Feb 1999 22:57:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 22:57:39 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gcc Message-ID: <19990228225739.F3380@relay.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@NUXI.com References: <19990228131503.A1563@relay.nuxi.com> <31146.920241925@zippy.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95i In-Reply-To: <31146.920241925@zippy.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Sun, Feb 28, 1999 at 02:45:25PM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.1-STABLE Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message