TODO: egcs-g++ (fwd)

[Ildar Mulyukov]

Ildar Mulyukov, student of DACR, MIPT (Moscow, Russia)
e-mail: ildar@faki-campus.mipt.ru, ICQ# 4334029

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Date: 10 Apr 1999 02:40:32 -0300
From: Alexandre Oliva <oliva@dcc.unicamp.br>
To: Ildar Mulyukov <ildar@faki-campus.mipt.ru>
Cc: egcs@egcs.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: TODO: egcs-g++

On Apr 10, 1999, Ildar Mulyukov <ildar@faki-campus.mipt.ru> wrote:

> But when I just started using egcs c++ I encountered 2 problems.

Nope, egcs did encounter 2 problems :-D

> struct _stru {
>     int i;
>     union {
>         struct { int j0, j1; };
                                ^ some variable name is missing here
>         int j[2];
>     }
       ^ struct and union declarations must be terminated with `;'
> };

> The worst thing is that TinySoft's VisualC++ eats it ok :-)

Send them a bug report then :-)

> 2. Compiling dos-formatted files (CR-LF instead of LF) invokes no problem
> except when one ends line with '\'. While CR comes straight after \
> compiler thinks it is special symbol and emits an error.

AFAIK, this is not supposed to work, but, if it works at all, it would
probably only work in MS-DOS like platforms.  But I'm not sure about
that.

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