From: broeker AT acp3bf DOT knirsch DOT de (Hans-Bernhard Broeker) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: "for" messages Date: 23 Nov 1999 12:31:20 +0100 Organization: RWTH Aachen, III. physikalisches Institut B Lines: 25 Message-ID: <81dtu8$4bi@acp3bf.knirsch.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: acp3bf.physik.rwth-aachen.de X-Trace: nets3.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE 943356684 8145 137.226.32.75 (23 Nov 1999 11:31:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse AT rwth-aachen DOT de NNTP-Posting-Date: 23 Nov 1999 11:31:24 GMT X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Rodeo Red (rodeored AT netstep DOT net) wrote: > This short example program from "Using C++ by Rob McGregor will not > complile with djgpp and produces the messages below. I assume it > probably does compile on some other compiler so I thought you could tell > me what's making djgpp puke. [...] The code example has been bashed to death, already, so let me give just one more advice, on a somewhat broader scale: you should consider getting rid of that book, right now. It's teaching you a programming language that doesn't exist, any more: pre-ANSI C++. The reason DJGPP doesn't accept that program was simply that it's too old-fashioned. Well, actually, you *can* get that program through gcc, by use of some command line option documented in the 'C++ dialect' chapter of the gcc documentation. But you shouldn't really do that. [I continue to wonder how authors and publishing houses can dare to publish so many books on topics like this, while the target is still such a rapidly moving one as C++ has been, until the ANSI comittee finally got through to its decision.] -- Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de) Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.