Quote Originally Posted by laserlight View Post
I think that the text of the C++ standard should be a good read here:



This just concerns headers, so the type of linking is not relevant.


For the standard headers, it depends on the compiler. In theory, there might not even be a file for the header.


Again, allow me to quote the standard:
Thanks laserlight!
May I ask you the source of the c++ standard and is it readable for beginner/intermediate level programmer? (Google threw up some sites which were a little advanced for me)

sgiri