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From: cdb@midas.WR.TEK.COM (Christopher David Browne)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: C++ for VMS (Summary)
Keywords: c++ C++ VMS
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Date: 16 Nov 90 18:42:06 GMT
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In article <1919@m1.cs.man.ac.uk> mark@cs.man.ac.uk (Mark van Harmelen) writes:
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>C++ compilers for VMS: Survey result posted in response to requests
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>
>Thanks to all the people who contributed to this.
>mark
>
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>
>Glockenspiel
>
>One negative recommendation for the Glockenspiel compiler (reasons not
>stated). Perhaps interested parties may like to start a thread on what
>this compiler does and does not do, rather than accept my second hand
>information.
>
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	I sent a negative recommendation for the Glockenspiel compiler 
on VMS. The reasons I stated were:
	1: Very poor to non existent documentation for VMS. Most documentation
		is for DOS or OS/2.
	2: You cannot link to a shared library that contains print statements
		because during runtime it will core dump. This is a known bug
		that is not documented. I called up Image Soft who we bought
		the compiler from 4 months ago and got the run around for
		a couple of months until they finaly told me that it was a 
		known bug. I was told that Image Soft has no VMS machines 
		to test new releases. Glockenspiel stated that they had a 
		fix in their new release and would send it to me right away.
		That was almost 3 months ago. I did receive a tape a week ago
		but on tring to install it on our machine found that it was
		empty. Maybe it had something on it when it left Glockenspiel
		I have no way of knowing.  I have called Image Soft every day
		this week and they say they will call back in five minutes.
		Guess what, it must be a different five minutes than I 
		know about. 

	3: I have not gotten that far. I have been stuck on 1 and 2 for
		4 months.