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<LI><em>From</em>: Greg Munt <<A HREF="mailto:greg#uni-corn,demon.co.uk">greg#uni-corn,demon.co.uk</A>></LI>
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On Wed, 11 Feb 1998 s001gmu#nova,wright.edu wrote:
> what's wrong with linux g++, as far as templates go, btw?
> haven't had a need for a template class yet, but then I'm not very far
> into things. :)
Linux g++ fails miserably at implementing:
templates
namespaces
exceptions
You can (sometimes) get away with basic uses of these features, but,
since we are all writing non-basic programs, that doesn't help too much.
I know that the exception handling is so poor that it has to be turned on
with a flag.
Additionally, I have heard that libg++ is not threadsafe (why I'm
avoiding use of threads), and only the more recent Linux kernels can cope
on multiprocessor systems. Libg++ itself has 'workarounds' (GNU's word
for it) for limitations within g++ - they have an extensive GNU-only
class library, and the method you have to use to instantiate containers
is confusing, at best.
I have heard that EGCS (www.cygnus.com/egcs) is much better than g++,
though I haven't had a chance to use it yet. Also, having (just now)
looked at the FSF web site, I have found that gcc is now on version 2.8; I
have 2.7.2. Does anyone know what/if improvements were made to the
compiler's handling of the 3 C++ features specified above? Let's hope my
comments don't still apply.
> > I'm free of Cobol now! Hurrah! >
> heh. I've never touched COBOL, and if I can help it, I never will. :)
It was mind-numbingly boring, and lost most of its challenge after about
9 months. Some companies are paying contractors 1000 pounds sterling, a
day, to make their legacy systems Y2K compliant (a possibly exagerated
report!) though.
--
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00396" HREF="msg00396.html">DBs and Events</A></strong>,
Greg Munt <a href="mailto:greg#uni-corn,demon.co.uk">greg#uni-corn,demon.co.uk</a>, Tue 10 Feb 1998, 18:30 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00399" HREF="msg00399.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] DBs and Events</A></strong>,
Greg Munt <a href="mailto:greg#uni-corn,demon.co.uk">greg#uni-corn,demon.co.uk</a>, Wed 11 Feb 1998, 10:50 GMT
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s001gmu <a href="mailto:s001gmu#nova,wright.edu">s001gmu#nova,wright.edu</a>, Wed 11 Feb 1998, 14:26 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00432" HREF="msg00432.html">OT: Linux g++</A></strong>,
Greg Munt <a href="mailto:greg#uni-corn,demon.co.uk">greg#uni-corn,demon.co.uk</a>, Thu 12 Feb 1998, 11:52 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00444" HREF="msg00444.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] OT: Linux g++</A></strong>,
Ben Greear <a href="mailto:greear#cyberhighway,net">greear#cyberhighway,net</a>, Fri 13 Feb 1998, 00:30 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00487" HREF="msg00487.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] OT: Linux g++</A></strong>,
coder <a href="mailto:coder#ibm,net">coder#ibm,net</a>, Mon 16 Feb 1998, 11:29 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00526" HREF="msg00526.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] OT: Linux g++</A></strong>,
Shawn Halpenny <a href="mailto:malachai#iname,com">malachai#iname,com</a>, Wed 18 Feb 1998, 17:02 GMT
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