On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 12:25:15 -0500, Stephen Pitts wrote:
> A word of warning: In my (albeit limited) experience, C++ and
> the STL has been more of a pain than a blessing. I wrote several
> programs that used the STL for linked lists and sorting, and
> found out that FreeBSD is not up to par with Linux in terms of
> C++ compilers and lacked some STL features I needed,
Strange. I thought *BSD are using EGCS as well.
> and ended up rewriting the programs in Python to get them to port over
> cleanly.
If you want to have your C++ code portable to many systems and compiler
versions, you have to be quite conservative in your choice of C++ subset.
The mozilla folks have a writeup on this:
http://www.mozilla.org/docs/tplist/catBuild/portable-cpp.html
HTH,
Ray
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