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From: leech@cezanne.cs.unc.edu (Jonathan Leech)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: What C++ Compiler should I buy?
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Date: 13 Nov 90 23:04:16 GMT
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In article <39546@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>, jbuck@galileo.berkeley.edu (Joe
Buck) writes:
|>In article <3072@lectroid.sw.stratus.com>, fmbutt@mrbt.sw.stratus.com
(Farooq Butt) writes:
|>|> I keep hearing that g++ is below AT&T rev level 2.0. Is that true ?
|>|> If so is multiple inheritance supported ?
|>Not true; g++ v1.37.1 is about the same distance from satisfying
|>E&S as cfront 2.0 is; multiple inheritance is supported and I am
|>currently using MH with g++.  However, libg++ includes a streams
|>package corresponding to AT&T 1.2; it doesn't have "iostream.h".
|>(cfront is AT&T's C++ 2.0 compiler).

	You can quibble over terminology, but the fact is that lack of the
iostream package makes G++ useless for many applications, such as mine. In
terms of portability, the standard library is part of the language.