Standard header format.

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

"Steven T. Hatton" <hattons@globalsymmetry.com> writes:

[...]

| In TC++PL(SE) Stroustrup suggests I look at the standard headers for my C++ 
| implementation to see the interface for the components of the Standard 
| Library.

Can you present full quote and context?

[...]

| Is there an easy way to extract the interface declarations for the Standard 
| Library from the GCC include hierarchy?  If not, I propose that either that 
| mechanism be created, or some means of providing a direct representation of 
| the standard headers be part of the GCC distribution.

I do not see what problems that would solve.  Clearly, the C++
standard does not dictate that the standard headers correspond to
actual files; and even if they do, the C++ standard does not dictate
that they contain anything that is standard C++.  At some point, I
would like to see more collaraboration between the compiler and the
library, and clearly that means more magic things going on.

-- Gaby