[boost] Re: STLPort and other compiler and/or library links

From: Steinar Bang (sb_at_[hidden])
Date: 1999-12-23 15:10:18

>>>>> jsiek_at_[hidden]:

> Actually, it's more confusing than you think. It is only the STL
> part of the SGI implementation that is going into the std library
> for gcc.  As far as I know that gnu folks have their own iostreams
> implementation.

And their own string (which AFAIK is a refcounting shallow copy
string, that is thread safe on systems that supports atomic integer
operations).