Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <003c01c2e3d9$529e0010$78d96f83@pomello> From: "Max Bowsher" To: "Bruce Adams [TEPG Sunbury]" , References: Subject: Re: Exception: STATUS_PRIVILEGED_INSTRUCTION occurs before main is executed. Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 12:10:05 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Bruce Adams [TEPG Sunbury] wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Max Bowsher [mailto:maxb@ukf.net] >> Sent: 06 March 2003 11:39 >> To: Bruce Adams [TEPG Sunbury] >> Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com >> Subject: Re: Exception: STATUS_PRIVILEGED_INSTRUCTION occurs >> before main is executed. >> >> >> Bruce Adams [TEPG Sunbury] wrote: >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: Brian Ford [mailto:ford@vss.fsi.com] >>>> It is not legal to use gcc for compiling c++ code. You >> must use g++. >>>> >>> This is not true. >>> I use gcc -x c++ which should be identical. >> >> I believe that g++ will auto-include standard C++ libraries, >> but gcc -xc++ will not. >> >> Max. >> > That makes sense. Presumably I should only use gcc -x c++ if > I wish to use an alternative library implementation such as STLPort > which I have been considering (in order to test portability). Even then, you don't need -xc++ unless you are compiling C++ code in a file not ending with one of ".C .cc .cxx .cpp .c++". Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/