Can libstdc++ be used with non-GNU compilers?
Perhaps. Since the goal of ISO Standardization is for all C++ implementations to be able to share code, libstdc++ should be usable under any ISO-compliant compiler, at least in theory. However, the reality is that libstdc++ is targeted and optimized for GCC/g++. This means that often libstdc++ uses specific, non-standard features of g++ that are not present in older versions of proprietary compilers. It may take as much as a year or two after an official release of GCC that contains these features for proprietary tools support these constructs. In the near past, specific released versions of libstdc++ have been known to work with versions of the EDG C++ compiler, and vendor-specific proprietary C++ compilers such as the Intel ICC C++ compiler.
