On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 01:41:37PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <[email protected]> "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 [email protected] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
