From: "Tom Demmer" <DEMMER AT brain1 DOT lstm DOT ruhr-uni-bochum DOT de>
Organization:  Lehrstuhl Stroemungsmechanik, RUB
To: Peter Palotas <blizzar AT hem1 DOT passagen DOT se>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date:          Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:19:12 GMT-1
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Peter Palotas wrote:
> Hi Tom,
> 
> >Peter, 
> >bad news, your program does not work together with
> >TurboVision. Programs using TV fail to compile,
> >I get a syntax error where TV overloads the new[]
> >operator
> 
> I guess I forgot to mention this problem in the documentation.
> For the new[] operator overload I have no concrete solution yet, because
> MSS needs to overload the new operator itself, and there will be a
> conflict. I will try to find a solution as soon as possible though. I don't
> think there will ever be a really GOOD solution for this though.

Odd. I wonder if there _can_ be any.

> 
> 
> >, and when a member function is called 
> >"free". Any ideas how to cure that?
> 
> Well, this is because MSS #defines a macro `free  to get the
> functionname/filename/linenumber information about the call to free, since
> it's not possible to overload that function in any way. If you are not
> using (or Turbo Vision is not using) the C library free() function, try
> commenting out the #define free... line in `mss.h  or put an #undef free
> right after the #include <mss.h> line in all your source files.

I think this can be cured most times by including mss.h after
tv.h. After a quick glance through tv.h, this is only used in 
one stream object, so it doesn't hurt, unless I want to have a
descendant of that class in my sources that overwrites this method.

[...]

Ciao
Tom

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