Re: can STL be ported to Cfront?

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From: Sean A Corfield
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1995 16:54

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In article <46p316$6e7@halley.eng.pyramid.com>,
rlister@pyramid.com (Robert Lister) wrote:

|> Does anyone have thoughts on how difficult it would be to port STL
|> to compile on a Cfront compiler?

It's sufficiently hard that it's worth paying the $149 to buy a commercial
version that has already been ported. There's lots of little features in
STL that won't compile on various Cfront-based compilers (e.g., nested
typedefs in template classes, use of qualified types nested in template
parameters, overloading of function templates etc etc). Also, STL requires
instantiation-on-demand which causes problems with some of the inline
template functions in the source (on some Cfront-based compilers).




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From: Sean A Corfield <sean@corf.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: can STL be ported to Cfront?
Date: 27 Oct 1995 16:54:46 GMT
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