Werner LEMBERG <w...@gnu.org> wrote: |> I may have to look into this C++ stuff. I have only written C and I |> have not figured out how to write multi-threaded applications |> without global variables. And I make good use of goto and |> longjmp. Apps would be a lot junkier without them. | |Well, right now groff's C++ is essentially C code with some useful |additions. It doesn't use `high-level' C++ concepts like templates |(although there is at least one place where this would be useful to |avoid macro trickery).
charinfo::contains() uses std::vector. But i used templates (including typename etc.) with gcc 2.95.2 on Halloween 4 (RedHat 6.1) and that is really old (though significant improvements came later, so this may be a false statement; but 2.95.4 (FreeBSD 4.7) definitely). --steffen
