Re: [Plib-devel] sg & STL

[Steve B. <sjb...@ai...>]

"Curtis L. Olson" wrote:
> 
> Amit Bakshi writes:
> > Has anyone tried putting any of the sg* types into an STL container yet?
> > I tried it but it doesnt work as most types are typedef'd to float[n]. I was
> > thinking of wrapping the simple types into a class which provides proper
> > operators so that the sg* functions still work. Has anyone done this yet?
> 
> Just so you know, the plib author is not exactly thrilled with using
> the STL (probably mostly because of the portability issues it
> creates.)  There is a wide variety of STL implimentations (or various
> stages of implimentations) out there which can cause a lot of
> compatibility problems between the various compilers.

Yep - as Curt predicts - I'm not very fond of STL - but I don't think
that's the issue here.
 
> Before you get too far down this path, you probably will want to have
> a serious discussion about it with Steve because I doubt he will be in
> favor of making these sorts of modifications to plib.

Does this actually require making changes to SG?

SG is really the most basic low level thing - I quite expect you to
want to wrap it with other things when you need to - but to use it
"raw" when speed is needed (eg in SSG).

However, I don't see a whole lot of benefit to including those
wrappers in PLIB...and as usual I'm very averse to adding dependancies
to PLIB.

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