One day in the far away future the standard C++ hello world will use 'import std;' and 'std::print' and it will be glorious.
One of the stranger behaviors of TenDRA was that it put all standard library symbols, including the C headers, into namespace std. A hello world in TenDRA looked like this:
#include <cstdio> // no <stdio.h> available
int main() {
std::printf("Hello, world!\n");
return 0;
}
I ended up writing a bunch of utilities for strings, including a unit testing library that spawned each test as a subprocess (to avoid exceptions) just so I could use GCC instead.
[0] There is no such version recorded on the GNU project website.
https://gcc.gnu.org/legacy-ml/gcc-announce/2000/msg00003.htm...
My personal suspicion is that someone (student or faculty) got their hands on a CVS snapshot and installed it system wide. That's the only explanation I can think of for it being so broken.
It's sort-of recorded. It's not in the version list since there wasn't a release, just distros making a mess:
In fact, the last time I checked, the MSVC cstdio header was implemented more or less like this:
namespace std {
#include <stdio.h>
}
using namespace std;
I had absolutely no idea this wasn't even supposed to be the case (although I was aware of the duplication in std::). Guess it makes sense that the standard would shy away from global namespace pollution - I suppose one of the compilers perhaps did this for long enough that the others ended up duplicating it to increase code compatibility?
$ rpm -qi gcc
Name : gcc Relocations: (not relocateable)
Version : 2.96 Vendor: Red Hat, Inc.
Release : 110 Build Date: Fri 12 Apr 2002 10:30:47 PM UTC
Install date: Thu 20 Jan 2011 03:34:36 AM UTC Build Host: daffy.perf.redhat.com
Group : Development/Languages Source RPM: gcc-2.96-110.src.rpm
Size : 8389509 License: GPL
Packager : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla>
URL : http://gcc.gnu.org
Summary : The GNU cc and gcc C compilers.
Description :
The gcc package includes the cc and gcc GNU compilers for compiling C
code.
$ cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Linux release 7.3 (Valhalla)In the context of Chromium, this slide deck, that means in about 2026.
So if you're starting a three year degree next week, and you already know Google will hire you for the Chromium team straight after because you're the perfect person for that, you won't be writing std::print() calls in that codebase yet 'cos that's too early.