From: "A. Darrow" <msnsh AT freewwweb DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: GPP Compile problem
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 15:22:29 -0800
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Weiqi Gao <weiqigao AT a DOT crl DOT com> wrote in message
news:381FCD7E DOT 9D6AA339 AT a DOT crl DOT com...
> "A. Darrow" wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> > As it turns out, these two files are completely different
> > in each compiler distribution, although they appear to be
> > doing the same thing. This may be apropo of nothing.
>
> The two files should be completely different, but they should do exactly
> the samething that's specified by the ANSI C++ standard.

    Why should they be completely different? I've noticed that many of the
    header files in both distributions are written by the same individual!
i.e.
    Istring.cpp

 [...]

> This error is caused by the fact that the ANSO C++ standard changed the
> scoping rules for variables defined in the for() header.  They go away
> as soon as the for loop ends now.
>
[...]
> >
> > 1. Are some of the header, .cpp, lib files in the DJGPP distribution (v
> > 2951) obsolete or out of date?
>
> I don't think so.

    Yet the file Istring.cpp will not compile because of the change in the
    scoping rule. Is this just semantics?


> Weiqi Gao
> weiqigao AT a DOT crl DOT com
>