[MUD-Dev] OT: Linux g++

[Ben Greear]

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On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, Greg Munt wrote:

> On Wed, 11 Feb 1998 s001gmu at nova.wright.edu wrote:
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> > what's wrong with linux g++, as far as templates go, btw?
> > haven't had a need for a template class yet, but then I'm not very far
> > into things.  :)
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> Linux g++ fails miserably at implementing:
> 
>   templates
>   namespaces
>   exceptions
> 
> You can (sometimes) get away with basic uses of these features, but, 
> since we are all writing non-basic programs, that doesn't help too much. 
> I know that the exception handling is so poor that it has to be turned on 
> with a flag.

Don't know about the others, but you can get templates working.  The trick
is to include the .C file in the .h file (with #ifdef's of course).  Then
include the .h file in your program.  It's a hack granted, but it does
work...  Besides it's free and ubiquitous!

Ben
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