operator << for floating point types

[Benjamin Kosnik]

> I'm new around here, and I'm interested in helping with the development.

Great!

> I run on an alpha (RH 6.0), so I started by having some fun and games
> getting the library to compile under gcc-2.95.  I haven't tried to sort
> out the problem with "complex" yet; the other problems I found OK
> workarounds for.

I'm really interested in your work to get this to compile under
alpha-linux. The complex problems are being worked on by Richard, so I'm
not too worried about this particular issue at the moment. Could you post
your workarounds in some kind of patch/ChangeLog format?


> the missing output operators for floating point types.

known bug. . . .

> I'd like to have a go at this.  Is someone working on it already?

Nope, go right ahead.

> The problem I've got is no access to the standard.  I'm in Australia and 
> I'm not convinced that the localstandards body will have ISO 14882.  Any 
> advice on how I could get access to the relevant bits?  


Check out the links on the main v-3 web page, 

sourceware.cygnus.com/libstdc++

-Benjamin