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From: bright@Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: C++ and Standard Libraries
Message-ID: <2052@dataio.Data-IO.COM>
Date: 14 Jul 89 20:09:16 GMT
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In article <6590194@hplsla.HP.COM> jima@hplsla.HP.COM (Jim Adcock) writes:
>Are standard libraries a part of C++ *the language* or not?

The only library functions that are part of the language are:
	1. Implementations of new, delete, and variants.
	2. Code to handle static constructors/destructors.

>Does a conforming C++ compiler have to provide streams?  complex numbers?

Streams seems to expected. Complex numbers less so. But these are library
issues, not language ones.

>Standard C libraries? -- Kind of hard to do anything without these.

We can assume that the C libraries will be available with C++. Though if
the C++ translates to C, it will use the target C compiler's library.
Compilers like mine will include all the C stuff with the package.