Hi everyone,
I am in the process of porting an application from a BSD platform onto a Linux box. When compiling, I have found that some of the header files call for '<bits/stl_alloc.h>', which is missing from my computer. Does anyone have any idea as to where I can find this and/or why it is missing? I am running a Fedora 12 machine with GCC4.4.4. Thanks so much for your help!

You should never include anything in "bits" directly. That is your real error. Figure out what header you should have really included and use that instead.

" bits/stl_alloc.h " : Not seen since gcc-3.3.3 ( It's in the c++ files )

It is possible to install a "compat gcc33-c++ rpm" etc. to Fedora 12.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...2-a-797763/#12

May be convenient for other reasons with such an old application.
( Other than the strange '#include <bits/stl_alloc.h>' ).
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Ok I figured it was removed in an earlier version of GCC. So since many of my files depend on it, using GCC4.4.4 what can I use as a replacement to get my code to compile or will I need to rewrite all of it to bring it up to specification?

Why should it ? I have four (five) compilers on some Linux (Fedora 12)
# yum install compat-gcc34-gcc++ : version 3.4.6

And the Suse gcc33-c++ , Suse gcc41-c++ , etc.
( And of course the default gcc-c++ 4.4.2 ( or 4.4.4 )

These, at least 4, are meant to be installed at the same time.

But please read post # 2 again :

Yes, I realize that it is indeed possible to have multiple compilers running on the same system. However, that doesn't help me towards my end goal. I was given to task of porting this code over from a FreeBSD system to a Fedora 12 system and updating to current standards along the away. And for the include of the bits headers, I completely agree with you that they should never be included directly. However, I did not write this code myself and the person who did write it youused those includes directly and heavily relied on them. So my question is, when taking this code written for GCC3.3.x and moving it to modern day GCC4.4.4, is there anything that can mimic or replace the functionality of stl_alloc.h? Thanks so much for your replies!

So instead of taking this opportunity to fix the error you are going to perpetuate it. How sad.

You might want to look in <bits/allocator.h> and see if the missing templates are in there. If you do not see what you need in there, try

Code:

# pushd /usr/include
# find . -name '*alloc*'

and look at all the relevant results.

Obviously you are attempting to compile the code, and the compiler complained that it could not find stl_alloc.h. Since then, I presume you have deleted that include statement from the code, and you are getting additional compiler errors. Will you please share what these are?

Without having a reference point to what functionality was provided by the deprecated stl_alloc.h file, it's hard to assist you in finding a substitute. Although, you may want to try including <memory>.