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From: "Mike Ruskai" <thanny AT spambegone DOT home DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Some questions, and some bugs (perhaps)
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Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 19:08:17 GMT
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On Thu, 22 Oct 1998 13:10:50 +0200 (IST), Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>
>On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, Mike Ruskai wrote:
>
>> it took me a bit to figure out that ifstream and ofstream objects
>> weren't assuming ios::in and ios::out, as they should.
>
>How do you figure that, and in what version of GCC/libstdcxx did you see 
>this?

Isn't it painfully obvious?  ifstream and ofstream are unidirectional file
stream objects.  I'm basing the correct behavior on what other C++ compilers
do, and what common sense dictates.  I don't know of all versions of GCC have
this bug.

>> Primarily what I need to know is what defines the compiler makes, so that I
>> can make alterations specific to it, rather than to anything but my normal
>> compiler.
>
>Use __DJGPP__.  This is explained further in section 8.6 of the DJGPP FAQ 
>list (v2/faq211b.zip from the same place where you got DJGPP).

Thanks.  I did not expect to find such information under that section.  I
don't think it belongs there.

>> In addition, is there any way to compress the executables, and keep them
>> functional?
>
>v2misc/mlp107b.zip from the DJGPP sites.  But I suggest to read section 
>8.13 of the FAQ first, since it is quite possible that your program can 
>be made significantly smaller even without compressing it.

Thanks, another option I was looking for.

Something I forgot to mention is that the compiler had a problem with this
statement:

enum BooleanConstants {false=0, true=1};

Any ideas why?  Works perfectly well with two other compilers.

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 - Mike

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