Re: Can GCC guess where to find template definitions?

[James Kanze]

Greg Comeau wrote:
> In article <4279f5ac$0$285$636a15ce@news.free.fr>,
> James Kanze  <kanze@none> wrote:

>>Paul Pluzhnikov wrote:

>>>James Kanze <kanze@none> writes:

>>>>Why g++ never implemented this, I'll never know, given that
>>>>it is pretty much standard practice in the world where g++
>>>>is most used.

>>>It is not at all a *standard* practice, though it is used by
>>>Sun, SGI and IBM compilers.

>>And the older C++ compilers for HP/UX.  In just about any
>>CFront derived compiler, in fact.

>>So how widespread does it take for something to be considered
>>a de facto standard.  We had it on Sun, SGI, IBM and HP/UX, at
>>least.  We even had it on the first Windows compiler to
>>support templates (a port of CFront by some Irish company
>>whose name I've forgotten).

> You're thinking of Glockenspiel.  I recall we (Comeau
> Computing) were the first with a cfront based compiler
> supporting templates, but could be recalling it incorrectly.

I was thinking of Glockenspiel, and perhaps I should have said,
the first Windows (or was it still MS-DOS back then) compiler I
heard about which supported templates... I didn't learn about
Comeau until after I'd heard about Glockenspiel, but all things
considered, it's quite likely that you were there before them.

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