Re: [boost] portable hash_map

From: David Abrahams (abrahams_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-03-02 21:51:23

If you do quarantine STLport's hash_map, please consider submitting that to
boost ;-)

-Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Neal Fachan" <neal_at_[hidden]>
To: <boost_at_[hidden]>
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2001 3:56 PM
Subject: [boost] portable hash_map

> Hello.
>
> We noticed you don't include a hash_map template in the
> Boost libraries. We assume this is because every STL
> implementation we can find includes their own hash_map.
>
> Unfortunately, none of these hash_map implementations are
> compatible.
>
> We have portable software which uses the native vendor STL
> on all platforms, so this makes using vendors' hash_maps
> troublesome.
>
> What would you advise us to do? We are leaning towards
> taking SGI STL (STLPort)'s hash_map, but putting it into
> it's own quarantined namespace.
>
> Yuck!
>
> Help!
>
> Thanks.
>
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