Re: Using stl containers in gcc

[Jakub Jelinek]

On Tue, May 03, 2016 at 12:30:35PM -0300, Andres Tiraboschi wrote:
> This raises a further question: why are gcc containers preferred over stl 
> ones.

For consistency, because they play well together with the garbage
collection, because they are tuned for GCC's needs (e.g. to be usable even
in POD structs/unions where needed, to reduce their size in the common case,
etc.).

        Jakub