GM>
  > Linker error Cstring::operator=(const char near& ) defined in cstring.cpp
  >       is duplicated in cstring.cpp.
GM>

  This is known as The Single Copy Problem.

  It applies to all sorts of things that the compiler needs to
  instantiate, such as templates, virtual function tables, and (as in
  this case) out-of-line inline functions.

  Different C++ compilers solve this in different ways.  Borland C++
  uses an extension to Intel's Object Module Format in its linker so
  that all separately compiled instances of virtual function tables and
  templates are combined into one by the linker.

  I don't remember what happens in the case of out-of-line inline
  functions in older versions of Borland C++, such as yours.  I do know,
  however, that it was explicitly stated recently by the ISO Working Party
  on the Draft C++ standard that inline functions should default to
  internal and not external linkage (which solves the problem another
  way).

  If I remember correctly, there is a compiler switch (-vi ?) to enable
  all inline functions to be actually generated inline, instead of being
  generated out-of-line in every translation unit that uses them.  You
  may have to turn this switch on.

  > JdeBP <
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