can STL be ported to Cfront?

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3 total messages Started by Robert Lister Thu, 26 Oct 1995 23:20

#2317

Author: Robert Lister
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 1995 23:20

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

I have taken a class on STL, so I'm very familiar with the difficulty
even the most compilers have with it.  However, I can't
think of anything fundamental about STL which would preclude
porting it to Cfront.  The lack of default template parameters is the 
only deficiency I know which would affect the STL API, and I could
live with that.

- Bob
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Re: can STL be ported to Cfront?

#2322

Author: 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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Re: can STL be ported to Cfront?

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Author: Shankar Unni
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 1995 04:17

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Robert Lister (rlister@pyramid.com) wrote:

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

Such a port has been done by ObjectSpace.  Their claim is that it works with
Cfront 3.0 (or is it only 3.0.2?)

From the STL FAQ:

    C. STL<ToolKit>:ObjectSpace at 1-800-OBJECT-1
                most C++ compilers
                code is well documented
              comes with tutorial with over 200 elementary
                        examples that have just been placed in the public
                        domain available via anonymous ftp from
                        butler.hpl.hp.com at
                                /stl/examples.Z or .zip for PC
                These examples are a good place to start.


They have taken Alex's public-domain copy from butler.hpl and modified it
extensively for portability to cfront, efficiency and some ease-of-use
improvements..
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