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From: paul@gill.UUCP (Paul Nordstrom)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: casts and references in C++
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Date: 4 Jun 90 17:57:41 GMT
References: <2661674A.8793@paris.ics.uci.edu>
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In article <2661674A.8793@paris.ics.uci.edu> schmidt@crimee.ics.uci.edu (Doug Schmidt) writes:
>Hi,
>
>  The following program illustrates an inconsistency between g++ and
>cfront in their handling of references.  I am curious to know which
>compiler gets it ``right.''
>

>    Doug
>--
>schmidt@ics.uci.edu (ARPA) | office: (714) 856-4043


And if you compile it with Oregon C++ 2.0 you get:

/tmp % occ x.c -o x
/tmp % ./x
I get printed with g++ but *not* with cfront 2.0.
/tmp %

Now all we need is a compiler that prints neither!  :-)  Maybe Zortech or TC++. :-)


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Paul Nordstrom
Gill & Co., L.P.
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