1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?> 2<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><title></title><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets Vsnapshot" /><meta name="keywords" content="ISO C++, library" /><meta name="keywords" content="ISO C++, runtime, library" /><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The GNU C++ Library" /><link rel="up" href="extensions.html" title="Part III. Extensions" /><link rel="prev" href="extensions.html" title="Part III. Extensions" /><link rel="next" href="ext_compile_checks.html" title="Chapter 16. Compile Time Checks" /></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center"></th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="extensions.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Part III. 3 Extensions 4 5</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ext_compile_checks.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr /></div><div class="preface"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h1 class="title"><a id="manual.ext.preface"></a></h1></div></div></div><p> 6 Here we will make an attempt at describing the non-Standard 7 extensions to the library. Some of these are from older versions of 8 standard library components, namely SGI's STL, and some of these are 9 GNU's. 10</p><p><span class="emphasis"><em>Before</em></span> you leap in and use any of these 11extensions, be aware of two things: 12</p><div class="orderedlist"><ol class="orderedlist" type="1"><li class="listitem"><p> 13 Non-Standard means exactly that. 14 </p><p> 15 The behavior, and the very 16 existence, of these extensions may change with little or no 17 warning. (Ideally, the really good ones will appear in the next 18 revision of C++.) Also, other platforms, other compilers, other 19 versions of g++ or libstdc++ may not recognize these names, or 20 treat them differently, or... 21 </p></li><li class="listitem"><p> 22 You should know how to access these headers properly. 23 </p></li></ol></div></div><div class="navfooter"><hr /><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="extensions.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="extensions.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ext_compile_checks.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Part III. 24 Extensions 25 26 </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Chapter 16. Compile Time Checks</td></tr></table></div></body></html>