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- From: Bradd W. Szonye <bradds@ix.netcom.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Microsoft and the C++ standard
- Date: 20 Apr 1996 00:27:10 GMT
- Organization: Netcom
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- If you read Microsoft's release notes for VC++ 4.x, you'll notice that the
- public-domain implementation of the STL is not very compatible with
- MFC--and that's just a part of the *library* portion of the standard.
- Other changes, such as "bool" might be even worse.
-
- I'm wondering how they're going to manage to provide a conformant C++
- compiler and still get MFC to work with it. Perhaps users will have to
- choose between the C++ standard library and MFC? Or they'll throw together
- some extensions that make it all work, like magic? Don't get me wrong, I
- love MSVC++, but I just don't see how they're going to pull this off
- without breaking a lot of code.
-
- Any strong feelings about the compatibility issues? Or comments from
- Microsoft? I'm anxious to hear.
-
- Bradd.
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