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- From: pete@borland.com (Pete Becker)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: BC++ 5.0 and MFC?
- Date: 18 Feb 1996 23:08:04 GMT
- Organization: Borland International
- Message-ID: <4g8bgk$kf0@druid.borland.com>
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- In article <4g69nt$sfs@cloner2.ix.netcom.com>, aahenry@ix.netcom.com says...
- >
- >In article <4ficta$6gu@soap.news.pipex.net>, p.howson@auntie.bbcnc.org.uk
- >writes...
- >>
- >>
- >>>This is true, but does anyone know what version of MFC BC5 will be able
- >>to
- >>>compile up to? Theoretically, it should be able to handle any version,
- >>am I
- >>>wrong? Will it be able to compile future versions? I'm just
- >>wondering... I
- >>>don't really know how the whole thing works :-)
- >>>
- >>>bye.
- >>>chris.
- >>MFC versions 3.2 and 4.0 according to Borlands Web Page
- >>
- >
- >The ad I just recieved for it claims BC5.0 ships with a "compiler
- >independant" patch of some form that must be applied to MFC (method
- >undetailed) which the compiler needs. That doesn't really sound like it is
- >compatable, But it is a nice try. (Go get 'em Borland)
- >
-
- MFC relies on undocumented non-standard language extensions. Rather than guess
- what these extensions are supposed to do (since they are most likely compiler
- bugs, not deliberate features), we provide a patch program that modifies the
- source code so that it still compiles with VC++ and is more portable. In
- addition, it fixes obvious errors such as having a field named 'bool' in a
- union.
-
- >I am very curious about their STL support too. I will not be happy if it
- >doesn't compile the Oct 95 release of the STL.
- >
-
- It compiles the release of STL that is integrated into the product. We haven't
- tried it against any public domain versions of STL.
-
-