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From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: WP for Linux, BSD?
Date: 14 Mar 94 17:58:26 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
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References: <1994Mar9.082547.1022@news.csuohio.edu> <CMMHqG.3L9@boulder.parcplace.com> <2m0ctg$hnf@mojo.eng.umd.edu> <CMMz07.5vu@boulder.parcplace.com>
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In <CMMz07.5vu@boulder.parcplace.com> imp@boulder.parcplace.com (Warner Losh) writes:
>In article <2m0ctg$hnf@mojo.eng.umd.edu> chuckr@glue.umd.edu (Charles
>B. Robey) writes:
>>Could you expand on that comment, re: g++ brain damage? What's the
>>known problem, what do you know about it?
>Pointers to member function can't be cast at all. Since callbacks in
>OI (and other toolkits) use this feature heavily, it makes g++ 2.5.8
>useless for compiling and running with OI.
[...]
>So maybe "brain damaged" was a little strong, but there are several
>problems with the compiler and it should best be avoided until 2.6.0
>comes out.
^^^^^
And 2.6.0 should best be avoided until 2.6.3987 comes out. :-)
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Michael L. VanLoon Iowa State University Computation Center
michaelv@iastate.edu Project Vincent Systems Staff
Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free Unix for PC/Mac/Amiga/etc.
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