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From: tron1@tronsbox.xei.com (Kenneth Jamieson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: REVIEW:  Comeau C++ compiler
Keywords: programming, language, C++, compiler
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Date: 20 Apr 91 04:21:42 GMT
References: <1991Apr15.170545.14190@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> <37044@ditka.Chicago.COM> <1991Apr18.174810.14120@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
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In article <36851@ditka.Chicago.COM> comeau@csanta.attmail.com (Greg Comeau) writes:
>In article <1991Apr12.001715.19397@oracle.com> jmarvin@oracle.com (John W. Marvin) writes:
>>I assume there is no C++ debugger w/ Comeau?
>
>That is currently correct, however it is worth noting that as we currently
>are telling you to do something like "buy a C compiler too", the result
>is that you will have a C debugger like CPR and that works fine.

I can understand that CPR will work with C++ code and will try to do its
best - but I can't see how it will be able to understand the "this"
pointer. The GNU debugger gdb required a number of extensions to work
properly with GNU g++ - I think CPR will need a few as well. Another problem
is that member function names of the form "class::function" get translated
to some other C function name internally - I don't know for sure but I expect
this is the case with Comeau C++ (that's how its done on GNU and Zortech).

Michael Rizzo
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