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This is a small application to demonstrate building user level code that uses C++ and, in particular, the standard C++ library. Just compiling a C++ source file itself is relatively trivial. The difficulty is we are in a non hosted environment and do not have the requisite run time support, nor STL implementation. The Client component demonstrates just using the C++ language, defining a simple template, and then using regular C for actual IO. This means there are no STL includes or additional linking required. The Echo component attempts to use the STL that comes with GCC. Since GCC's STL assumes the presence of its C library this does not 'just work'. We define a helper library that consists of various defintions to bridge the gap between the expectations of the STL and our C library. We can then add the STL location to the include paths and link against GCCs C++ implementation libraries. Using the STL is fairly sketchy due to our C library being fairly minimal and not being portable to different compilers. The C++ wrapper library was the minimal required to make the example build for a particular compiler/library version and is by no means complete.