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Re: What the heck is name2?
- To: <mal at bewoner dot dma dot be>
- Subject: Re: What the heck is name2?
- From: "Pablo Frank" <pablof at wave dot home dot com>
- Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 10:39:46 -0500
- Cc: <egcs at egcs dot cygnus dot com>
>Hi,
>
>your lead programmer is about 5 years out of date. generic.h was a
>macro kludge to provide parametrized classes in the first edition of
>Stroustrup's book before templates were added to the language. You can
>still find it on the net I guess but it's not a good idea to continue
>using it.
Actually, he's not my lead programmer. We asked his group for a port to
linux of an ORB that his group produced a while back. He gave us something
that only ran on Redhat 5.0 since it made use of old g++ libraries and
ancient versions of gcc. I asked him for something compiled against
stdlib++ and a real compiler. He said two months. I figured I'd just give
it a whirl to see how incompatible it was. After I included generic.h and
about 3 other simple includes from the g++ compatibility package, everything
started to build fine but the binaries produced are just core dumping (see
my e-mail to this group about upgrading Redhat 5.2).
Pablo