From:	Chris Mears <cmears AT bigpond DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: C++, complex, etc
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Date:	Wed, 17 May 2000 21:25:26 +1000
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On Wed, 17 May 2000 11:25:24 +0400, that hoopy frood "Alexei A.
Frounze" <alex DOT fru AT mtu-net DOT ru> wrote:

>Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> 
>> On Wed, 17 May 2000, Alexei A. Frounze wrote:
>> 
>> > IMHO there must no be any C++ library, just a C++ compiler itself, if people
>> > don't have standard for C++ library.
>> 
>> I don't think this is possible.  All the C++ classes are implemented
>> in a library (libstcxx.a, in the DJGPP case).  You *must* have that
>> library, and you *must* include the appropriate headers, if you want
>> to use data types other than the basic ones (int, char, etc.).
>
>I can define my own classes instead. Just a C++ compiler is needed, no C++
>library.  Stream I/O could be implemented w/o C++ library, complex stuff,
>strings, etc. can also be done w/o that library. So why should I use C++
>library, if it's not standartized? What are the reasons?

I thought it was.  Is it?

>Btw, when C++ was invented? How long we have it w/o of standard?
>
>> 
>> It is the same situation as with size_t in C: if you don't have
>> headers which come with a library, you cannot use size_t.
>
>size_t is not a problem. Btw, what so I need size_t for, if both size_t and
>int equal the same machine word?

Who says they do?

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