+1
From: Guido Berhoerster <[email protected]>
To: OpenIndiana Developer mailing list <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, May 23, 2011 5:36 AM
Subject: Re: [oi-dev] libstdc++ locale support on Solaris/OI
* Alasdair Lumsden <[email protected]> [2011-05-23 01:15]:
> And lastly, could someone confirm whether the Apache stdcxx C++ library is a
> viable full alternative to libstdc++ that we could use to avoid the locale
> issue? If so, does anyone foresee any issues of pairing gcc with libstdc++ to
> take over from Sun Studio as our compiler of choice for OI (I'm talking
> theoretically, ignoring the work involved of making everything actually
> compile with it).
Apache stdcxx upstream activity has largely ceased after 2008 so
it is probably not a good idea to commit to a sinking ship. GCC
libstdc++ and Clang libc++ are actively working on C++'0x support
so it's only a matter of time until some OSS projects start
taking advantage of that.
--
Guido Berhoerster
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