Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: ANSI C and C++
Message-ID: <1990Jul14.232930.24414@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Jul13.225712.3433@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 90 23:29:30 GMT

In article <1990Jul13.225712.3433@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> bms6x@hopper.cs.Virginia.EDU (Brad M. Segal) writes:
>  Does anyone know of a text that describes the differences between
>ANSI C and C++ 2.0? I'm trying to compile ANSI C headers with
>a C++ compiler and not getting too far. 

The best book for this is the new Annotated C++ Reference Manual (Ellis
and Stroustrup, Addison-Wesley 1990).  Be warned that it's expensive.
Be warned, also, that it describes the current version of C++, and most
compilers don't implement that yet.

That last point deserves emphasis:  you're going to have to be more
precise than "a C++ compiler".  C++ has evolved quite a bit since the
old Stroustrup book, and various compilers implement slightly different
languages.
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