Re: Compiler for C++ programming
On Sep 10, 2:11 pm, Stuart Golodetz
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Christopher Dearlove wrote:
"Richard Herring" <junk@[127.0.0.1]> wrote in message
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<6ba28a43-c94b-4c43-99cc-191d0eb96...@m38g2000yqd.googlegroups.com>,
Jerome <jerome.c.dso...@gmail.com> writes
Which compiler would be good to learn C++ template programming, on
windows platform.
I have access to VC++, but I have read that VC++ does not provide the
STL library as per the C++ STL standards.
If the above is true
The above may not be true. VC++ 6 was notoriously
non-compliant in many respects, but has long been
superseded by versions which are much closer to the
standard.
And bad as VC++6 was/is, it has most of the STL, although
it's weak on some corners thereof. It's real limitations are
on template member functions and on scope of variables
declared in for statements that make you write VC++6
specific code in these areas. And I have pushed it into
compiler internal errors in some template use areas.
I seem to remember the "fix" for that looked something like:
#if defined(_MSC_VER) && _MSC_VER <= 1200
#define for if(0); else for // VC++6 scoping bugfix
#endif
There was never any need for any fix; you just didn't use the
variable after the for. The only way this was ever a problem
was that it allowed some legacy code to compile, although it
wasn't legal.
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James Kanze