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From: dan@dyndata.UUCP (Dan Everhart)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Problems of Zortech C++ v2.1
Message-ID: <692@dyndata.UUCP>
Date: 16 Jul 90 15:58:08 GMT
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In-reply-to: Rick_R_Kitts@cup.portal.com's message of 14 Jul 90 18:17:47 GMT


In article <31714@cup.portal.com> Rick_R_Kitts@cup.portal.com writes:

   [...]
   Ok, I recompile and Zortech yells about an ambiguous function definition
   and throws up.

Compilers are supposed to give error messages when they detect errors.
Was the error message, in this case, correct?

   So he gives me a check and I run down and buy Turbo C++.

I'll be interested in hearing about your experiences with Turbo C++,
and Borland's tech support as well.

   Happiness lives once again at work. I have thrown out Zortech
   altogether.

You might want to hang on to it to provide a second opinion when you
suspect Turbo C++ to be in error.

   Zortech gets through
   pass 1, and then pass 2, and finally says "ZTC bug: 9513".
	[...]
   BTW, I did call Zortech about the ZTC bug message. I was told that it
   was usually a user problem and in any case the number didn't mean anything
   since it was a random number.

As has been discussed on the Zortech BBS, the number is an encoding of
the compiler source file and line where an internal error was
detected.  It is not random.  Is that really, literally what you were
told?

By the way, why did your Subject line say "v2.1" while your message
says you were using version 2.06?