RE: [Dev-C++] Super charging the string class

[Ioannis V. <iv...@em...>]

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> From: dev...@li...=20
> [mailto:dev...@li...] On Behalf=20
> Of Michal Molhanec
> Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2003 12:07 PM
> To: dev...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Dev-C++] Super charging the string class
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> ok, i've never did serious comparation but c++ lib in gcc2 was really=20
> terrible. recently i was updating some lib, written=20
> originally for gcc2,=20
> where was a class derived from streambuf and iostream, and i=20
> must have=20
> one code both for vc6 and gcc3 and different for gcc2. if we look at=20
> stl: vector in gcc2 lacks even the at() method!


Yes it did, I remember that. However I never use vector<>::at() anyway. =
:-)
However VC++ missed things from the standard library which I do not =
remember
now, mainly because I was not using vc++ for C++.


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> > better since VC++ 6 had also wrong language rules  (like=20
> the wrong scope of
> > temporary variables inside a for loop).
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> if i remember correctly this you can change by disabling language=20
> extensions (the problem is that than you won't be able to=20
> include some=20
> header files :-) )


Anyway with the existence of VC++ 2002/2003 and GCC 3.x we can forget =
the
bitter past (unless we have to work with VC++ 6/GCC 2.x nowadays).






Ioannis Vranos
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