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- From: David Byrden <100101.2547@compuserve.com>
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- Subject: Re: What about VC++ 4.0
- Date: 11 Jan 1996 18:54:49 GMT
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- Andrew;
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- >> does [VC4] obey the rules described in ARM?
-
- Well, I hope not. I hope they are reading the draft C++ standard
- instead of the ARM. Thousands of changes to the definition of
- C++ have been made since that book was published.
-
- But does VC4 obey the draft standard? Well, it IS only an
- unfinished draft at this stage. But, I must say, there are
- other compilers that manage to get closer to it. For example,
- template members, and exception specification lists are not
- supported in VC4.
-
- >> Does it really(seriously) support template & STL???
-
- Again, it is not perfect, and some compilers do better. But
- you can buy a third-party STL implementation that will work
- well with it. There is an STL provided with it, but that
- is freeware and has some incompatibilities.
-
-
- >> And more, does it has any know compiler bug?
-
- Oh, yes, even in the code generation there are some; luckily
- they are not show-stoppers. The development tools such as
- thebrowser have themostannoying bugs. MS have a bug list which
- they publish in their Knowledge Base, available on Compuserve.
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- David
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