From: G DOT DegliEsposti AT ads DOT it
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 09:25:50 +0100
Subject: Re: Return by reference
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>      I am migrating to djgpp from Borland C++, and I've found that
>djgpp doesn't like return by reference symbol "&". Is this true? thx in
>advance.

GCC is a little exigent about file extensions... did you use .cc as your
file extension? Otherwise it will try to compile your file as a C program,
and return by reference is not allowed in ANSI C ! :-)

could you please post a piece of code borland c++ likes and gcc does not?

ciao
  Giacomo