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| From | Bo Persson <bo@bo-persson.se> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c++ |
| Subject | Re: Help needed |
| Date | 2020-04-04 02:10 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <heq1jtFqtpmU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
| References | <66b94985-7db1-41e1-98f7-e509c5a0a142@googlegroups.com> <r67s55$4oi$1@news.albasani.net> <r684ml$imf$1@dont-email.me> <MFMhG.13712$Vc5.12096@fx07.ams1> |
On 2020-04-03 at 22:05, Mr Flibble wrote:
> On 03/04/2020 21:01, Christian Gollwitzer wrote:
>> Am 03.04.20 um 19:35 schrieb Bonita Montero:
>>> I just tried to compile your SP62-program. There are a lot assignments
>>> of string-literals to non-const string-pointers. In C++ every string
>>> -literal has the type "const char *"; I don't know if this has ever
>>> been different in earlier versions of C++, but earlier versions of
>>> MSVC accepted the assignment of string-literals to char-pointers. So
>>> you have to make your c-strings const. And there are a lot of erors
>>> which advise you to use safe versions of C-runtime-functions which
>>> are not prone to buffer-overflows. You can disable this errors by
>>> defining _CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS or you could use the safer versions
>>> the error-message shows you.
>>
>> I also tried to compile the SP71 program. There were only 7 real
>> errors. There is the idiotic for-scoping that was wrong in VC6. In VC
>> 6, if you write
>
> VC6 is NOT a C++ compiler, it is VC6 compiler.
>
True, in a way. Note that VC6 was published slightly before the C++98
standard was completed.
In 1997, when VC6 was implemented, the draft for the standard said that
the loop variable *should* be visible in the outer scope. Then that rule
was changed, and the standard was published.
Bo Persson
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Re: Help needed Paavo Helde <myfirstname@osa.pri.ee> - 2020-04-04 09:02 +0300
Re: Help needed Ned Latham <nedlatham@woden.valhalla.oz> - 2020-04-04 01:20 -0500
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Re: Help needed Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2020-04-04 18:58 +0200
Re: Help needed Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2020-04-03 22:01 +0200
Re: Help needed Mr Flibble <flibbleREMOVETHISBIT@i42.co.uk> - 2020-04-03 21:05 +0100
Re: Help needed Bo Persson <bo@bo-persson.se> - 2020-04-04 02:10 +0200
Re: Help needed Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2020-04-04 08:19 +0000
Re: Help needed Gerry Wolff <gerrywolff65@gmail.com> - 2020-04-05 02:56 -0700
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