From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 20 12:42:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D8CA1567A for ; Thu, 20 May 1999 12:42:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA66435; Thu, 20 May 1999 13:41:32 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id NAA07094; Thu, 20 May 1999 13:41:37 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199905201941.NAA07094@harmony.village.org> To: "G. Adam Stanislav" Subject: Re: c9x (new ANSI C) Cc: Chuck Robey , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 19 May 1999 18:01:51 CDT." <19990519180151.A226@whizkidtech.net> References: <19990519180151.A226@whizkidtech.net> <19990519170823.A240@whizkidtech.net> Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 13:41:37 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <19990519180151.A226@whizkidtech.net> "G. Adam Stanislav" writes: : And the MS book was outright lying (gee, surprise): It claimed that : one of the biggest advantages of C++ over C is that if you change : the C++ class, you need not recompile the code using it. What a : piece of bunk. In C++ the caller allocates the memory called by the : class. Some SGI compilers get around this somehow. They are really much nicer to work with than the cfront based compilers and their descendants. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message