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Problems with BC++ 3.0
- To: tcp-group@ucsd.edu
- Subject: Problems with BC++ 3.0
- From: anderson@cat.ATK.COM (Dean S. Anderson)
- Date: Mon, 20 Jan 92 8:49:19 CDT
> I'm having problems compiling PA0GRI 910618 under Borland C++ 3.0. Some
> of the problems were easily fixed, like this one:
>
> typedef long int32;
>
> (another file does this:)
>
> unsigned int32 wombat;
>
> Turbo C 2.0 had no problem with this, but C++ 3.0 clearly states that you
> can't use a modifier on a typdef'ed value. There were only a few of them,
> so they were easy to change.
>
[.........]
The C++ ARM (basically the Bible of C++), states that what you wanted to
do above is illegal. The 2.0 compiler did not catch this problem, but 3.0
now properly gets it. There should really be a typedef added:
typedef unsigned long unsigned32;
[.........]
Dean S. Anderson (KA0MCM)
anderson@cat.atk.com