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Standard C++ Moves Beyond Vapor

Posted by Hemos on from the crying-and-squalling-into-the-world dept.

An Anonymous Coward++ writes "This google thread announces the first C++ compiler that can actually handle the whole language (we'd been waiting for half a decade here). The company that did it is EDG. They're a tiny outfit, but they're apparently also behind the Intel compiler (both on Windows with Visual C++ extensions, and on Linux with GCC extensions). There are rumors they can compile the Linux kernel too."

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  1. GCC is missing stuff? by stonecypher · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If so, where can I go to find out what GCC is missing?

    (I had to write this three times because of that damn 20 second after reply widget. Thanks, trolls.)

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    StoneCypher is Full of BS
  2. Not much by Bastian · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Unless a few of the unimplemented language features have uses that nobody has thought of (not entirely unlikely since this is the first compiler I know of that supports all of them), I doubt it will make a huge difference for most coders. C++ programmers have gotten along fine without them thus far.

    However, it is nice to see that they have made it in. Maybe now other groups will start imlementing the full language, too.