Re: [Plib-devel] sg & STL

[Curtis L. O. <cu...@in...>]

Amit Bakshi writes:
> I was under the impression that STLport was quite portable.
> Anyway, I don't care too much if my modification would make
> it to the official plib. I was just wondering if anyone has attempted
> this before. Surely I can't be the only one using STL :)

We use the STL extensively in the flightgear project, but have had to
do a lot of fancy stepping, portability work, etc. to maintain
compatibility.  You'd really be surprised at the STL variants out
there.  They are often generally the same, but between different
versions of the STL, different stages of implimentation, etc.  It's
not even just differences between platforms or compilers, there are
often differences between versions of compilers.  The STL has a lot of
good points which is why the flightgear project uses it, just be
prepaired for a lot of headaches and a lot of extra work if you want
your project to be portable.

Regards,

Curt.
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