Our System

This book describes the ISO/ANSI CD2 draft definition of C++, which is essentially the same as the final standard for the material covered in this book, so the examples should work with any C++ implementation compatible with that standard. (At least, this is the vision and hope of portability.) However, the C++ standard is still new, and you may find a few discrepancies. For example, at the time of this writing, many C++ compilers lack namespaces or the newest template features. Support for the Standard Template Library described in Chapter 15 is spotty at the time of this writing. Systems that use the Release 2.0 (or later) cfront translator may then pass the translated code to a C compiler that is not fully ANSI compatible, resulting ...

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