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Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 10:02:35 +0200
From: Laurynas Biveinis <lauras AT softhome DOT net>
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To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: parse error on 'using namespace std;'
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, dnult wrote:
> 
> > int main() {
> >    using std::copy;
> >    using std::cout;
> >    ...
> >
> > The compiler complains "In function int main(), parse error before 'using'".
> > If I comment out the namespace specifiers the code compiles fine, (but
> > doesn't run).
> 
> GCC 2.8.1 doesn't support namespaces, AFAIK.

The only support for namespaces in GCC 2.8.1 is that compiler
compiles 'using namespace std;' as no-op.

If you want full namespace support, EGCS 1.1.x and GCC 2.95
implements it. But standard C++ library of those compiler
hasn't put in namespace std. It will be so in GCC 3.0.
However, you can try to use flags -fhonor-std -DHONOR-STD
(can't recall correctly) and see if it puts library in namespace
std.

Laurynas Biveinis