Having worked on producing such a cross-platform STL a few years ago, I can
tell you that they are loaded with work-arounds, brittle, less than fully
featured, and still make the compiler choke sometimes.

Before adopting one, make sure it has enough functionality to really be
worth the point -- if all you need are a few containers and basic iterators,
(1) it shouldn't be a big deal and (2) STL might be overkill.

Even then, for example with the Microsoft compiler (ships with a customized
version of Plauger's library) it still blows up at seemingly random times.
Can't make collection of some class or another, can't do this, can't do
that, ... just brittle and a headache.

--John

"Scott Hill" <sco### [at] ncgraphicsnet> wrote in message
news:3aa508f0@news.povray.org...
>     Over in p.u.p a while back there were a couple of posts regarding POV
> v4.0 and the STL - basically the message was that, due to the
inconsistency
> in the various compiler providers STL implementations, one would not be
able
> to use the STL within the POV 4.0 source code.
>     So, why not use a cross-platform STL implementation ?
>
>     See : http://www.stlport.org
>
>     Supported compilers (taken from website) :
>
>         - SUN Workshop C++ Compilers 4.0.x-5.0, 6.0EA, for Solaris
>         - GNU GCC 2.7.2-2.95 Compilers, for all GCC platforms
>         - IBM xlC 3.1.4.0, for AIX
>         - IBM OS/390 C/C++ 1.x - 2.x Compiler, for OS/390 (STLport is the
> only available and official ANSI library for this platform)
>         - IBM VisualAge/ILE C++ for AS/400 Version 4 Release 4, for AS/400
>         - IBM Visual Age C++ 3.x, for OS/2 and Win32
>         - HP ANSI C++ Compiler, for HP-UX
>         - SGI MIPSpro C++ 7.x, for IRIX
>         - SGI MIPSpro C++ 4.0, for IRIX
>         - DEC C++ V5.5-004, V6.x for OSF 3.2/4.0, for Digital Unix.
>         - Tandem NCC, for Tandem OS
>         - SCO UDK C++, for UnixWare
>         - Apogee C++ 4.0, for SUN Solaris
>         - KAI C++ 3.1c, for all KAI platforms
>         - Portland Group C++ compiler ( pgCC), for all pgCC platforms
>         - Microsoft Visual C++ 4.x - 6.x, for Win32
>         - Borland C++ 5.02-5.5, for Win16/32
>         - Metrowerks CodeWarrior Pro 1.8-5.3, for MacOS, Win32
>         - Intel (R) C++ 4.0 Reference Compiler, for Win32
>         - Watcom C++ 10.x-11.0, for DOS, Win16, Win32
>         - Powersoft's Power++ 2.0, for Win32
>         - Symantec C++ 7x/8.x, for MacOS and Win32
>         - Apple MPW and MRC compilers, for MacOS
>
> --
> Scott Hill
> Software Engineer.
> NC Graphics (Cambridge) Ltd.
> Web : http://www.ncgraphics.co.uk
> E-mail : sco### [at] ncgraphicsnet
> ICQ : 110661991
>
>

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