Re: Conforming compilers should compile STL?

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From: Matt Austern
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 23:38

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In article <4ic32v$ah@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> fjh@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Hender
son) writes:

> I think currently there may be no existing compilers which are
> capable of compiling any version of STL which fully conforms to
> the draft standard.  So compiler vendors ship with slightly
> cut-down implementations of STL, such as the HP version, which do
> not quite conform to the draft standard, but which are easier to compile.

In particular, note that the STL (both the version described in the
original Stepanov-Lee paper and the version described in the ANSI/ISO
committee draft) relies on member templates and on partial
specialization.  I don't know of any currently shipping compilers that
support either of those features.
-- 
Matt Austern
SGI: MTI Compilers Group
austern@isolde.mti.sgi.com
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From: austern@isolde.mti.sgi.com (Matt Austern)
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