[LLVMdev] New libc++ LLVM Subproject

[David Greene]

On Tuesday 11 May 2010 15:43:21 Chris Lattner wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> LLVM now includes a C++ standard library, written by Howard Hinnant.  You
> can read about it here:
> http://blog.llvm.org/2010/05/new-libc-c-standard-library.html
>
> Or get the code here:
> svn co http://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/libcxx/trunk libcxx
>
> If you have questions or comments, please direct them to one of the clang
> mailing lists.  Thanks!

This looks cool, but I can't help wondering about the motivation.  libstdc++
has a ton of useful functionality (debug mode, profile mode, etc.).  Does 
libc++ plan to reproduce that?

What's driving libc++?

                                -Dave