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+ Also known as concept checking.
+ </p><p>In 1999, SGI added <span class="emphasis"><em>concept checkers</em></span> to their implementation
+ of the STL: code which checked the template parameters of
+ instantiated pieces of the STL, in order to insure that the parameters
+ being used met the requirements of the standard. For example,
+ the Standard requires that types passed as template parameters to
+ <code class="code">vector</code> be <span class="quote">“<span class="quote">Assignable</span>”</span> (which means what you think
+ it means). The checking was done during compilation, and none of
+ the code was executed at runtime.
+ </p><p>Unfortunately, the size of the compiler files grew significantly
+ as a result. The checking code itself was cumbersome. And bugs
+ were found in it on more than one occasion.
+ </p><p>The primary author of the checking code, Jeremy Siek, had already
+ started work on a replacement implementation. The new code has been
+ formally reviewed and accepted into
+ <a class="link" href="http://www.boost.org/libs/concept_check/concept_check.htm">the
+ Boost libraries</a>, and we are pleased to incorporate it into the
+ GNU C++ library.
+ </p><p>The new version imposes a much smaller space overhead on the generated
+ object file. The checks are also cleaner and easier to read and
+ understand.
+ </p><p>They are off by default for all versions of GCC from 3.0 to 3.4 (the
+ latest release at the time of writing).
+ They can be enabled at configure time with
+ <a class="link" href="configure.html" title="Configure"><code class="literal">--enable-concept-checks</code></a>.
+ You can enable them on a per-translation-unit basis with
+ <code class="code">#define _GLIBCXX_CONCEPT_CHECKS</code> for GCC 3.4 and higher
+ (or with <code class="code">#define _GLIBCPP_CONCEPT_CHECKS</code> for versions
+ 3.1, 3.2 and 3.3).
+ </p><p>Please note that the upcoming C++ standard has first-class
+ support for template parameter constraints based on concepts in the core
+ language. This will obviate the need for the library-simulated concept
+ checking described above.
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