Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 17:35:10 -0800 (PST)
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To: frenchc AT cadvision DOT com (Calvin French), djgpp AT delorie DOT com
From: Nate Eldredge <eldredge AT ap DOT net>
Subject: Re: libgcc <strclass.h>
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At 09:59  1/17/1998 GMT, Calvin French wrote:
>Hmn, now I have a question about gcc's String class implementation. It seems 
>to work quite well most of the time, but there is a problem and that is that 
>it seems to be part of libgcc, not libstdcx. This is bad for me, since 
>according to my understanding of the GPL I have to release my source code and 
>all other kinds of terrible (j/k) things if I use it, right? I've so far kept 
>my code that uses it to an absolute minimum with the plans to change it over 
>to standard libc string functions, but perhaps there is a comparable 
>(equivalent?) free implementation?
I'm no C++ expert, but I believe there is some sort of string class in
libstdc++, which I think is the standard one. The one in libg++ is, AFAIK, a
GNU extension. Note that this is libgpp.a, not libgcc. (libgcc contains only
assorted math routines and such used by the compiler.) libgpp is LGPL, which
means you must give out either your source code or linkable object code.

Nate Eldredge
eldredge AT ap DOT net