Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!lll-winken!uunet!odi!benson From: benson@odi.com (Benson I. Margulies) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: GNU g++ not ready for anything at all. Message-ID: <1991Jan17.124701.28308@odi.com> Date: 17 Jan 91 12:47:01 GMT References: <1991Jan10.202317.161@ee.ualberta.ca> <16008@ogicse.ogi.edu> <2419@bnlux0.bnl.gov> <10248@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Reply-To: benson@odi.com (Benson I. Margulies) Distribution: na Organization: Object Design Inc., Burlington, MA Lines: 13 >Basically, the maintainance upgrades have stopped because Tiemann, Stallman, >and others are putting all their time into gcc/g++/objective-C version 2.0 >(all three languages in one), which I understand is in pre-alpha state at >present. So presumably there will be no official 1.37.2, or a 1.38 version >of g++, but I could be wrong. When 2.0 is finally out, I expect it to be >the first available C++ compiler to support templates and exceptions as >described in the ARM (that is, you won't be able to buy one from AT&T, >but you'll be able to get one by FTP), since Tiemann has committed to that. Just to straighten the record, the C++ translator included with ObjectStore has included templates for 5 months now. -- Benson I. Margulies