Mail Archives: djgpp/2000/05/20/14:45:25
On 18 May 2000 09:06:09 GMT, Hans-Bernhard Broeker
<broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de> wrote:
>Alexei A. Frounze <alex DOT fru AT mtu-net DOT ru> wrote:
>> Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:
>>> Alexei A. Frounze <alex DOT fru AT mtu-net DOT ru> wrote:
>>> > So why should I use C++ library, if it's not standartized?
>>>
>>> It *is* standardized. But most of the compilers haven't implemented
>>> all of that standard, yet.
>
>> Is standard or is <being> standartized? Why so long?
>
>As someone else in this thread so nicely put it: it *is* standardized,
>but so far only on paper, not in the form of compilers and libraries,
>yet.
That was mine.
message-id: m545iss5oq027req5bsshh81sh45l1h5st AT 4ax DOT com
>I wanted to point out that you were making a totally unjustified
>assumption. You say you don't need size_t, if size_t and int are
>effectively the same thing. The 'if' in that sentence is the crucial
>part: this 'if' cannot be tested by the program.
It can, however, be tested at compile time, right?
#if sizeof(size_t) == sizeof(unsigned int)
foo();
#else
bar();
#endif
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