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- From: Scott Byer <byer@mv.us.adobe.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.apps,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: SGI's C++ compiler and the boolean type
- Date: 12 Apr 1996 10:21:14 -0700
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- In-reply-to: jonathan.k.armstrong@cdev.com's message of Wed, 10 Apr 1996
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- J Karl Armstrong writes:
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- J> In article <4kefm7$oao@ncar.ucar.edu>, jadams@sage.cgd.ucar.edu wrote:
- >> Is there something that I'm missing here, such as compiler flags or
- >> include files ? Is this a case of SGI dropping the ball by not including
- >> support for a standard type ?
-
- J> To be fair, 'bool' is _not_ a standard type; it's a _proposed_ standard
- J> type. There's a difference.
-
- The standard has been reasonably stable for a year now. All the other
- compilers I've got all have at least an _option_ for compiling at the
- standard's level. The ARM is simply too weak to use as a basis for real
- world code, and when dealing with multiple compilers you have to have
- something to fall back to in order to arbitrate compiler differences, and
- that's the proposed ANSI C++ standard.
-
- ANSI has done a remarkable job of taking a language that seems to have been
- cobbled together more than designed, and making it at least tolerable. IMO,
- SGI has dropped the ball in not providing at least the _option_ - hey, let
- me hang myself if I program to a proposed standard that changes out from
- underneath me, but _let_me_choose_.
-
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