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From: daniel@avsd.UUCP (Daniel Edelson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: C++ for DOS/OS2
Message-ID: <2053@avsd.UUCP>
Date: 15 Sep 89 18:17:10 GMT
References: <657@windy.dsir.govt.nz>
Reply-To: daniel@avsd.UUCP (Daniel Edelson)
Organization: AMPEX Corporation, Redwood City, CA
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In article <657@windy.dsir.govt.nz> SRWMRBD@windy.dsir.govt.nz (ROBERT) writes:
>>Joe English writes
>>Zortech sells a good C++ compiler for MS-DOS at...
>>...but it does support everything in The Book.  

>It is a good product but it doesn't support everything in The Book.
>For example, don't expect user defined conversion operators to work
>and do expect some expressions to mis-compile.
>Robert

Also no pointers to members. No reasonable way to take the address of a 
member function. And it seems to break in programs with too much data
with symptoms being that the __STIxxx routines are not invoked.
Still, it seems like a good product at a reasonable price for many uses.

daniel