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From: ln63wdz@sdcc13.ucsd.EDU (CHRISTINE CHATFIELD)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Zortech C++ BUG!
Message-ID: <1097@sdcc13.ucsd.EDU>
Date: 6 Jan 89 02:11:45 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego
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A few weeks ago I received my Zortech C++ compiler -- I was very excited!
After installing it, I immediately attempted to compile some work I had
written on the VAX. Things were going well until I got down to compiling
the test driver for my Robin-Hood hashing ADT. 

What I have is a common object and all the user records are derived from
this common object.
The problem arises when I try to compile lines where I'm either doing a
insert or retrieve. The compiler complains that it can't uniquely identify
the object (or something to that effect). 
Note that this code compiled and ran fine on the VAX.

I called Zortech and they said that they could not help without seeing
the code, so I posted the source code on their Bulletin Board.

After waiting for a few days I called them and they still had not looked
at it, but they said that they would call me in a few days. After a few
weeks of no word I called them back and there answer was, "YEPP IT'S a BUG".

It appears that this is a serious, very serious BUG. 
Is this supposedly complete C++ compiler unable to handle one of the 
fundamental aspects of the language? 

Has anyone had any similar problems with inheritance?

I would appreciate some feedback.


                               a VERY disappointed Zortech C++ owner

                                         alann lopes