From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 20 21:36:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from whizkidtech.net (r29.bfm.org [208.18.213.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A1F414C09 for ; Thu, 20 May 1999 21:36:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adam@whizkidtech.net) Received: (from adam@localhost) by whizkidtech.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) id XAA00311; Thu, 20 May 1999 23:36:02 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from adam) Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 23:36:02 -0500 From: "G. Adam Stanislav" To: Warner Losh Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: c9x (new ANSI C) Message-ID: <19990520233602.G255@whizkidtech.net> References: <19990519180151.A226@whizkidtech.net> <19990519170823.A240@whizkidtech.net> <19990519180151.A226@whizkidtech.net> <199905201941.NAA07094@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <199905201941.NAA07094@harmony.village.org>; from Warner Losh on Thu, May 20, 1999 at 01:41:37PM -0600 Organization: Whiz Kid Technomagic X-URL: http://www.whizkidtech.net/ X-Operating-System: FreeBSD whizkidtech.net 3.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 01:41:37PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > 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. I'm glad to hear that. That would make the code much more robust. I was only exposed to MS VC++, and I am very glad I always examine the assembly language output of anything I write in a high-level language! It was a mess. Of course, everything from MS is.... Adam To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message