[boost] Re: Shouldn't this work??!?!

From: jsiek_at_[hidden]
Date: 1999-12-22 11:54:32

Dave Abrahams writes:
 > 
 > 3. Boris Fomitchev and I have found, in doing the latest STLPort for gcc,
 > that -fhonor-std doesn't actually work. Amazing as it may sound, std is
 > still (mis-)treated specially, though in slightly mysterious ways. That's
 > why the STLPort for gcc doesn't actually put anything in std. Instead,
 > everything goes into namespace stlport and the header files automatically do
 >     #define std stlport
 > for you.

Yes, this is especially crazy. They actually hacked the gcc compiler
to ignore namespace std! Of all the broken ways of avoiding fixing
their library code...

Cheers,

Jeremy