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                           C. Support for Gcc 2.7.2
                                       
   (and other non-standard compliance compilers)
   
   My original plan was to program in such a way that it would Aspell
   would compile under Gcc 2.7.2 however after releasing a rather nasty
   bug in 2.7.2 with nested typed I have desired to drop all support for
   G++ 2.7.2. As of Aspell .27 all hope for being able to compile under
   Gcc 2.7.2 is lost as I am now using many modern C++ features which are
   simply not present in C++ most notably template specialization and
   template members. Egcs 1.1.1 is a very good standards compliant
   compiler and that is now the officially supported compiler. However as
   Egcs 1.1.1 is relatively new and, except for namespaces, provides
   little new functionality I will continue to support Egcs 1.0.3. Gcc
   2.8.1 should in theory work however it is so buggy I have yet to get
   it to compile with it nor has anyone else that I know of.
   
   Yes, my code could be rewritten so that is could compile under Gcc
   2.7.2 but Why? Using modern C++ has probably accelerated the
   development of this library my at least 50%. And for that matter why
   stop at Gcc 2.7.2 why not go all out and totally rewrite my code pure
   C. I hope you see my point.
   
   However that does not mean I want to sacrifice portability
   unnecessarily. If you see any of part of my code that in not Standard
   C++ please let me know. My hope is that my code could compile on all
   Standard compliance C++ compilers with the addition of a few extra
   header files from SGI's STL.
   
   As I side note I think that Mozilla's C++ portability guide
   (http://www.mozilla.org/docs/tplist/catBuild/portable-cpp.html) could
   be summed up in one sentence: Program in the dark ages of C++.
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    Kevin Atkinson 1999-11-20
