From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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Subject: Re: HELP please: C++ Not working!!
Date: 20 Jul 2003 21:48:26 GMT
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RadSurfer <RadSurfer AT yahoo DOT com> wrote:
> h:\djgpp>gcc -x c++ hw.cpp -o hw.exe
> (is this okay?)

Sort of.  "gpp" or "gxx" would have been shorter and easier to type than
"gcc -x c++", but other than that, you're fine.

> WHAT is wrong here?

Your C++ knowledge, and probably also the textbook or tutarial you
learned it from.  ANSI/ISO Standard C++ exists since 1998, and the
source code you showed ignores it completely --- it's ancient
pre-standard C++.  The reason you're observing this now is that
compilers took quite a while to catch up with the language standard
--- for GCC, it took until version 3.0, and even so, it's still not
quite there.  But then, so is hardly any other compiler in the world.
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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.