From: Ron House <house AT usq DOT edu DOT au>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: STL broken?
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 00:46:05 +0000
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I believe the latest version of the STL is fatally broken, to the extent
that trivial programs will not compile. As this version is distributed
in DJGPP and, I believe, Linux, I am wondering why no one else has
noticed this. The version of the STL I refer to is on

http://www.sgi.com/Technology/STL/download.html

as version 3.3.

An example of a line it won't compile is:

vector<vector<int> > m;

as found on page 836 of Stroustrup.

On the other hand, version 3.2 on that same site works correctly with
the most complex templates I have in my programs.

Have I missed something here?

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