What the heck is name2?

[Pablo Frank]

>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your lead programmer is about 5 years out of date.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