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echo: os2prog
to: Jonathan de Boyne Pollar
from: Paul Marchildon
date: 1995-11-05 00:26:00
subject: Borland Bashing

JP>   Nevertheless, even assuming the C++ Working Paper as an ISO standard
JP>   there are still three items that are non-conformant (wrong return type
JP>   from `main', POSIX 1003 extension for environment pointer, and missing
JP>    header).
JJP> 
JP>   There's a whole echo devoted to the C++ language, incidentally, where
JP>   these sorts of discussions are better placed.  It's called CPLUSPLUS.

I stand (well, actually I'm sitting) humbled and corrected.

Personally, I find the whole thing boring. Particularily when it comes
to return types for main(), or deviations in library files. In the
latter case, all I want is clear documentation from the vendor. If
Borland leaves out an unused parameter in _beginthread(), and I require
cross-compiler compatibility, I can always create a macro, within
precompiler conditionals of course. What matters to me is the fact that
the Borland OS/2 compiler isn't working!

I don't recall seeing a CPLUSPLUS echo. Perhaps I have no access to
it. Is it available from sol3?

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