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From: cline@cheetah.ece.clarkson.edu (Marshall Cline)
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Subject: Re: Errata list for Lippman's C++ Primer
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Date: 20 Nov 90 23:10:19 GMT
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In article <1570@travis.csd.harris.com> brad@SSD.CSD.HARRIS.COM (Brad Appleton) writes:
>On a longshot - I was wondering if perhaps various readers of both Lippman's 
>text and of this newsgroup have their own personal(but not exhaustive) lists
>of errors they have found.

Stan Lippman posted this to comp.lang.c++ early this summer.  I
believe his book's recent printings don't contain some of these
errors, however, so this list may be hopelessly out-of-date.
Enjoy!
Marshall Cline
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From: stan@kaiser.UUCP (s Lippman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Errata in C++ Primer
Date: 19 Jun 89 16:15:16 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Liberty Corner

My ``C++ Primer'' is based on a draft of Bjarne's C++ Reference Manual (and
matching in-house pre- release versions Release 2.0).  Subsequent to the
delivery of the manuscript a review of the language definition resulted in a
few modifications.  This impacts the book as follows:

p.24 : the keyword ``handle'' is now replaced with ``catch'' (also page 430).

p.40 : named enumerations now define unique integral types.  For example:
	enum TestStatus { NOT_RUN=-1, FAIL, PASS };
	enum Boolean { FALSE, TRUE };
	main() {
    		TestStatus test = NOT_RUN;
    		Boolean found = FALSE;
    		test = -1; // error: TestStatus = int
    		test = 10; // error: TestStatus = int
    		test = found; // error: TestStatus = Boolean
    		test = FALSE; // error: TestStatus = const Boolean
    		int st = test; // ok: implicit conversion
	}
        For compatibility, the cfront 2.0 issues warnings rather than errors.

p. 159: Overloaded functions can now be distinquished by args of enum types:
	enum Bool { FALSE, TRUE } found;
	enum Stat { FAIL, PASS };
	extern void ff( Bool );
	extern void ff( Stat );
	extern void ff( int );
	ff( PASS );  // ff( Stat )
	ff( 0 );     // ff( int )
	ff( found ); // ff( Bool )

p. 264-265: Class instances of operator new and operator delete should define
	arguments of type ``size_t'' rather than of type long.  As Andy Koenig
	pointed out, the current 2.0 implementation accepts the long argument
	and replaces it with that of size_t.

        The class instance of operator delete must return void.  (There was a
	brief window when it was permitted to define an arbitrary return type
	-- this section was completed during this window.) 

p. 354: A virtual function invoked within either constructors OR destructor
	of a base class is resolved statically to the instance defined by the
	base class.  (Thanks to Andy Koenig for pointing the destructor case.)

These corrections will be reflected in a subsequent reprinting of the book.
Stan Lippman
AT&T Bell Laboratories
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