Re: Is it necessary to declare the private section of a C++ class?
* Jerry Coffin:
In article <d757ed77-9504-4a6c-9e04-aee70b019447
@m20g2000vbp.googlegroups.com>, allnor@tele.ntnu.no says...
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If you want to play with console applications and use the
templated containers in the STL, you need to set the project
up to use precompiled headers. Once you do that, you are
forced to include a MSVS-specific header "stdafx.h" in the
.cpp files, or the compiler chokes. You can circumvent that
by setting up a .cxx file that includes stdafx.h and the
.cpp file that contains the standard code.
Where in the world did you get these ideas? None of them is even
close to correct.
VS/VC++ does not require that you use pre-compiled headers _ever_!
Using them, at all, is purely your own choice -- they do (or at least
can) make compilation faster, but that's all they were ever even
intended to do.
In any case, the standard library headers wouldn't be the reason to
use pre-compiled headers anyway. The real reason comes down to ONE
header: <windows.h>. Along with the others it includes, <windows.h>
is why pre-compiled headers were invented in the first place, and
still the primary reason to consider using them. If you aren't
(possibly indirectly) including that, chances are that you have no
reason to even consider using pre-compiled headers at all.
Well, that rationale may or may not be correct. With the Microsoft toolchain
<windows.h> is about 10 times larger than <iostream> (after preprocessing). With
the GNU toolchain they are about the same size.
Yeah, I know, I've described [windows.h] as "the mother of all header files" myself.
But the evidence doesn't bear that out.
Cheers,
- Alf
PS: Now I'm starting to HATE Mozilla. Firefox is the slowest beast on Mother
Earth, and Thunderbird informs me that "you can't send to more than one news
server at a time". For f*ck's sake, I'm *crossposting* to 2 newsgroups since the
thread is cross-posted, posting to the *same* single server. So, posted only to
[clc++]. Sorry bout the language but I'm upset: f****g braindead Mozilla.