This raises a further question: why are gcc containers preferred over stl ones.
Thanks, Andrés. 2016-05-03 12:02 GMT-03:00 Jakub Jelinek <ja...@redhat.com>: > On Tue, May 03, 2016 at 08:59:11AM -0600, Jeff Law wrote: >> On 05/03/2016 08:44 AM, Andres Tiraboschi wrote: >> >Hi, >> >Does anyone know if there is a good reason for not using stl >> >containers in gcc sources? >> >I'm asking because I didn't find any use of them in the code I read. >> The GCC coding conventions allow the use of the standard library; but you >> have to be careful WRT objects that are subject to garbage collection. > > And, if there is a GCC counterpart of a particular container, the GCC > counterpart should be used instead of the stl one. > E.g. vec, or hash_map etc. > > Jakub
