I believe he's referring to heap space constraints there....
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lee Martineau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 11:09 AM
> To: Palm Developer Forum
> Subject: Re: C++ Standard Library for Palm ?
>
>
> Note that 'using C++' and 'using C++ with STL' are two
> different things.
>
> Also, your faq has a link to another page where it is stated:
>
> "An 8 KB one-time size hit is a trivial amount on a modern PC, but on
> the
> Palm, 8 KB is 1/4 of the worst-case total program size."
>
> Multi-segment programs allow you to make truly large Palm programs
> (several
> hundred Kbytes). I don't know if there are any other compiler/os
> limits, but
> Palms are available with 7+ Mbyte of free space for programs.
>
>
> Warren Young wrote:
> >
> > richard smart wrote:
> > >
> > > Is is possible to use the C++ standard libary to develop
> Palm apps? STL
> > > classes such as string, map and list would be very useful !!
> >
> > I just added an item to the FAQ that covers my thoughts on
> this issue.
> > The short answer is "no". See the FAQ item for my complete argument
> > against using STL in Palm OS programming.
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> > = Warren Young -- Maintainer of the Palm OS Programmer's FAQ at:
> > = http://www.cyberport.com/~tangent/palm/faq/
> > =
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