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From: kearns@read.columbia.edu (Steve Kearns)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: C++ for DOS/OS2
Keywords: C++ DOS OS/2
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Date: 13 Sep 89 23:01:27 GMT
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In article <13588@well.UUCP> nagle@well.UUCP (John Nagle) writes:
>In article <6492@columbia.edu> kearns@read.UUCP () writes:
>>
>>I would recommend AGAINST going with Zortech.  The product (1.07, the
>>latest version as far as I know) has some very serious bugs which 
>>generate incorrect code.  And the bugs are such that they can bite you
>>in very subtle ways.  
>
>      Can you be more specific?
>
.....
>					John Nagle

Previously in this group someone pointed out that user defined conversion
operators are not supported.  But the most serious bug I know of
was, very responsibly we should notice, reported by the Zortech's author
Walter Bright.  Objects returned by value are stored in a static location
instead of the stack, meaning that expressions that require two 
subexpressions to be calculated will overwrite each other.

Even more frightening is the unknown:  what other bugs are there that
we DONT know about?

-steve