Re: Visual Studio STL on Linux? Portable STL suggestion?
"Tom Widmer [VC++ MVP]" <tom_usenet@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Magnus wrote:
Hi, and thanks very much for your answers. Perhaps we should simply use
the MS STL on Windows then, and the GCC STL on Linux.
That is definitely the best option. It helps keep your code standard
(since you can't rely on extensions), and may help you cut down on subtle
bugs in your code, due to testing your code with two completely different
standard library implementations.
I basically agree, and I think you've been given good advice by
several other posters as well. The main reasons why you might
want to use our add-on library on the two platforms are:
-- high degree of conformance to the C++ Standard
-- same debugging extensions for checking bad iterators and/or
ordering predicates
-- useful additions such as TR1, allocators, codecvt facets, etc.
But if using the common subset of the Standard C++ library meets
your needs, that is the simplest approach to take.
P.J. Plauger
Dinkumware, Ltd.
http://www.dinkumware.com