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Re: Need g++-3.4 package in lenny



* brian m. carlson:

> On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 04:37:53AM -0700, mvmvmv1234@yahoo.com wrote:
>> Debian Lenny has gcc-3.4 in http://packages.debian.org/lenny/gcc-3.4
>> but lenny doesnt have g++-3.4. 
>
> It's my understanding that this was intentional.  There are already
> three different versions of gcc in lenny, which is a lot to maintain.

Certainly true.

>> I need older gcc and g++ as I have a lot of iostream.h in my code. 
>
> iostream.h has never been a valid C++ header.

This is wrong, <iostream.h> contained the standard streams in the early
90s.  Like it or not, there was C++ even before ISO C++.


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