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>>>> Tom Stiemerling <trs@cs.city.ac.uk> writes:
  Tom> Resent-Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 14:23:56 GMT
  Tom> Resent-From: bug-lib-g++-request@prep.ai.mit.edu

  Tom> Now that g++-2.X supports templates, it seems that the genclass stuff is
  Tom> redundant (in that it tries to do the same thing outside the compiler).
  Tom> Is there any move to convert the gen libraries into template form?
  Tom> How difficult would it be to do? Is anyone currently doing it?

Please don't ditch the genclass stuff from libg++.  Some people would like
to use lib-g++ reuseable classes in environments (e.g. Microsoft C7.0) where
templates aren't supported.  It is much easier to port e.g. the collection
classes of libg++ and the genclass stuff to a strange environment like
Windows than to deal with missing templates in the library.  I would
recommend keeping the existing stuff and perhaps providing an alternate
that used templates.  

Also, given the volume of bug reports mentioning templates for gcc-2.3.1
and 2.2.2, it seems premature to expect them to easily support everything
that would appear in a template-ized libg++.

Thanks.
Jeff