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Martin Ambuhl wrote:
> Jim Michaels wrote:
>> I tried to find the proper memory.h in all the files I could, but I 
>> didn't seem to find anything.
> 
> There is no memory.h (or <memory.h>) in C.  If you ever had one, it was 
> an implementation-specific extension.
> 
>> malloc is defined, calloc is defined, free is defined.  but where are 
>> the other functions like memset and memcpy?
> 
> The malloc, calloc, realloc, free family is prototyped in <stdlib.h>
> memset and memcpy are prototyped in <string.h>
> 
>> The documentation I saw in MSDN said it was an ANSI function.
> 
> They are ISO (and ANSI) functions, but
> 
>> when I #included <memory.h>
> 
> <memory.h> is not.
> 
>> and compiled with DJGPP's gcc, it gave me the error:
>> In copy constructor 'var_array::var_array(const var_array&)':
>> 124.cc(20) Error: error: 'memcpy' was not declared in this scope
> 
> Oops! that is a C++ warning.  C++ is a different language from C, and 
> has its own newsgroup <news:comp.lang.c++>.  If your intent is to write 
> C++, go to that newsgroup.  If your intent is to write C, learn to use 
> gcc so it compiles C.
> 
>> in MS's implementation it was defined in both memory.h and string.h
>>
>> I am not sure what the ANSI standard did say however.

hmm.  I am using DJGPP. this is what rhide compiles .cc files with by 
default.  I know of no way to fix this.  should it be using gxx instead? 
  I don't know the difference.