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From: davidbro@microsoft.UUCP (Dave BROWN)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Debugging C++
Message-ID: <72392@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 17 May 91 00:56:15 GMT
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Reply-To: davidbro@microsoft.UUCP (Dave BROWN)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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In article <427@amgraf.UUCP> huver@amgraf.UUCP (Huver) writes:
> [and went on to say that Manx sdb worked like a champ, and SAS cpr
>  didn't work quite right, likely due to "inproper compilation flags".]
>
>This guy is getting on my nerves.  Where in his example source code is
>C++?  If I write in C++, why would I use printf()??

Because on some implementations of the C++ libraries, 

	cout << "Hello World!\n";

is significantly slower than

	printf("Hello World!\n");

Besides...  Object Oriented Programming is only a design technique.

You can do Object Oriented Programming in C, it's just harder.  C++
introduces enough syntactic sugar that you don't have to bend over
backwards to make the code make sense.

I've developed quite a bit of code in C++ (been doing it professionally
for over 3 years now), and have only RARELY used the streams code.
This is probably because most of the code was written at the systems
level -- if I wanted to use files, I called the OS's entry points.  Didn't
want to link in any more than I had to.

>Quit fooling around and go work on a real C++ debugger.

With the proper #line directives, nothing extra should be needed (mind you,
the names will still be mangled, but they ARE recognizable).  I use
Glockenspiel C++ and Microsoft C 6.0 with CodeView all the time.  Mind you,
I haven't tried it with Comeau, Lattice 5.10a and CodeProbe, but at this
time it would be futile, given that the Lattice C pre-processor does not
generate #line directives.

>-huver    !uunet!amgraf!huver

dave


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