From: karpfenteich AT gmx DOT de (Peter Karp)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: How to make DJGPP conform to the ANSI standard (STL)?
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2000 10:11:04 GMT
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Hi DJGPP fans :-)

a week ago I've asked a question regarding the at() function from the
vector container of the STL. Unfortunately nobody found the answer to
my question :-(

In the meantime I've found out that DJGPP uses the SGI STL and that it
doesn't support the at() function, while the HP STL (from VC++ for
example) does so.

As I'm a newbie I have problems to understand why this is so, as
Bjarne Stroustrup explains all the functions of the STL in his book
and I thought the different implementations of the STL would of course
include all the functions which are defined in the ANSI standard!
I was really surprised to find out that this is not the case :-(
(One of the points which makes it harder for a C++ newbie and for sure
a problem when trying to port a program to different compilers)

Are there plans to include the whole ANSI standard for future versions
of DJGPP (or I guess this must be named GCC here) ?

Does someone have a suggestion what would be the best way to program
now to stay as portable (but following the ANSI standard) as possible
or how I could change the DJGPP setup to make it better following the
ANSI standard?

Greetings from Cologne
Peter