Mike, you wrote to Erik Warmelink :
 MP> I normally just type g++ file.cpp -o file.  I guess I should
 MP> start using -Wall to really check for portability.  I'll
 MP> check to see how it's done with Borland C++, too.
I _have_ to use -Wall, because my code is very sloppy. I prefer a warning by 
the compiler to a debugging session, I have enough of those even when I do. 
;-)
If you want to check on portability the -ansi switch also helps a lot. But 
even using that the compiler doesn't know that other compiler have short ints 
as their default ints etc..
Bye,
 Erik 
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