From: Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov>
Subject: Re: Ada Generic vs. C++ Templates
Date: 04 Apr 2001 07:37:24 -0500
Date: 2001-04-04T12:52:06+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uhf046dtn.fsf@gsfc.nasa.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 9ab6uj$8201@news.cis.okstate.edu
dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu (David Starner) writes:
> On Mon, 02 Apr 2001 21:26:12 GMT, Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com> wrote:
> >I didn't say they weren't of practical use. I just said they are not a feature
> >that can be counted on to be portable; at least not according to Mozilla. Their
> >website was quite recently updated, and still includes the template prohibition
> >as rule #1. Since they run the most ported public application that I know of,
> >I'm inclined to bow to their experience.
>
> Maybe the most ported public C++ application; I think gcc, which runs on
> VMS, DOS, Windows, Unix, BeOS and MacOS X, among others, beats Mozilla, as
> do a number of the other GNU tools.
"gcc" is the Gnu Compiler Collection. It consists of a backend,
written in K&R C. The C front end is also written in K&R C. The Ada
front end is written in Ada (this is an Ada newsgroup, after all :). I
haven't looked at the C++ front end; are you implying it is written in
C++? And does it compile on anything other than Gnu C++? and does it
use templates?
Ted's point is that templates are not portable among compilers. Your
response does not seem to address that issue.
--
-- Stephe
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Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-04-02 14:28 Ada Generic vs. C++ Templates Josef Widder
2001-04-02 14:38 ` Ted Dennison
2001-04-02 20:57 ` Francois Godme
2001-04-02 21:26 ` Ted Dennison
2001-04-03 0:53 ` David Starner
2001-04-04 7:12 ` Pascal Obry
2001-04-04 12:37 ` Stephen Leake [this message]
2001-04-04 14:16 ` Ted Dennison
2001-04-03 22:09 ` Francois Godme
2001-04-04 16:17 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-04-04 16:21 ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-04-04 16:49 ` Ayende Rahien
2001-04-05 22:31 ` Colin Paul Gloster
2001-04-04 16:56 ` Ted Dennison
2001-04-04 17:02 ` Ayende Rahien
2001-04-05 0:35 ` James Rogers
2001-04-05 3:38 ` DuckE
2001-04-05 14:25 ` Marin David Condic
2001-04-05 20:32 ` Robert A Duff
2001-04-05 21:04 ` Marin David Condic
2001-04-06 16:19 ` Robert A Duff
2001-04-06 0:37 ` James Rogers
2001-04-06 10:38 ` Colin Paul Gloster
2001-04-11 3:33 ` Stephen Howe
2001-04-11 14:33 ` Colin Paul Gloster
2001-04-04 13:24 ` Georg Bauhaus
2001-04-05 8:46 ` Jean-Marc Bourguet
2001-04-04 17:30 ` Ehud Lamm
2001-04-05 22:04 ` Colin Paul Gloster
2001-04-10 7:03 ` Simon Wright
2001-04-13 14:11 ` Pat Rogers
2001-04-17 8:27 ` Colin Paul Gloster
2001-04-08 5:00 ` Lao Xiao Hai
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