> > On Mon, 31 May 1999, Brad wrote: > > > Where are the docs for the c++ libraries? > > > More specifically, i have a copy of "C++ How To Program" second edition > > here. It claims that #include <sstream> will allow strings to be > > manipulated as streams. "sstream: No such file or directory" g++ tells me.
The next major release of g++ will probably have it. g++ currently has the older <strstream>, which descibes stream classes that operate on char*, not string. They can probably be used for mostly the same thing. The iostream library (including strstreams) is documented in the iostream info file, that comes with libstdc++2.9-dev. Just type `info iostream'. In the future <strstream> (which is not in the ANSI standard) will be replaced by <sstream> (which is in the ANSI standard), though I guess <strstream> will stay around for some time. > > "Ok then, i'll just check the docs" i think to myself. Tried the manpages. > > Tried info. Tried looking in /usr/doc. i couldn't even find anything about > > the c++ string class (which i know i have), much less using them as As someone else already pointed out, there is the stl-manual package, which contains the information from Silicon Graphics about the STL (g++ currently uses the SGI implementation). > > streams! "Hmmm... did i miss a -doc somewhere?". Fired up dselect, and > > couldn't find any c++ docs at all, installed or uninstalled... > > > > So, does anyone know where the docs are? Or at least how to use something > > like what the book is talking about? > > > Unfortunately, there is very little distributed with egcs nor in > the way of actual documentation for either the compiler or the > libraries. In the egcs-docs package there is extensive information about the compiler in info format. The description of the C++ libraries could be better, but the iostream library is descibed to some degree in the iostream info file. The C library is not part of egcs, but it is well documented in info format, and available in the glibcdoc package. It is actually readable (not just as a reference) and I recommend it to anyone who is programming in unix in C or C++. I expect information about the stl to pop up when g++ starts using the stl implementation from the egcs team. For now g++ uses the SGI stl and you can use its documentation. [... skip interesting references ...] HTH, Eric Meijer -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Eindhoven Univ. of Technology Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (SKA)
