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J Karl Armstrong writes:

J> In article <4kefm7$oao@ncar.ucar.edu>, jadams@sage.cgd.ucar.edu wrote:
>> Is there something that I'm missing here, such as compiler flags or
>> include files ?  Is this a case of SGI dropping the ball by not including
>> support for a standard type ?

J> To be fair, 'bool' is _not_ a standard type; it's a _proposed_ standard
J> type. There's a difference.

The standard has been reasonably stable for a year now.  All the other
compilers I've got all have at least an _option_ for compiling at the
standard's level.  The ARM is simply too weak to use as a basis for real
world code, and when dealing with multiple compilers you have to have
something to fall back to in order to arbitrate compiler differences, and
that's the proposed ANSI C++ standard.

ANSI has done a remarkable job of taking a language that seems to have been
cobbled together more than designed, and making it at least tolerable.  IMO,
SGI has dropped the ball in not providing at least the _option_ - hey, let
me hang myself if I program to a proposed standard that changes out from
underneath me, but _let_me_choose_.

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