From: Steinar Bang (sb_at_[hidden])
Date: 1999-12-23 15:10:18
>>>>> jsiek_at_[hidden]:
> Actually, it's more confusing than you think. It is only the STL
> part of the SGI implementation that is going into the std library
> for gcc. As far as I know that gnu folks have their own iostreams
> implementation.
And their own string (which AFAIK is a refcounting shallow copy
string, that is thread safe on systems that supports atomic integer
operations).