Re: (OT) Re: memory management

[Pierre Phaneuf <pp@ludusdesign.com>]

Keith Lucas wrote:

> >But there's this interesting thing in newer egcs (that I don't have)
> >about a thunk-based virtual method lookup... It does makes many people
> >scream tho (libraries compiled in this way are incompatible with
> >vtable-based libraries).
> 
> I'd recommend getting it. 1 - it's the new "official" g++ compiler.
> 2 - it's quite good. 3 - everyone else uses it. Comes as std on most
> distribs these days.

I use the one that comes with Red Hat 6.0. So I guess I have it then.
(it says "gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)")


> Amongst the group of people I know we now use the word "strategic" to
> describe products like that, and, say Lotus Notes, that get used in defiance
> of all observable reason.

How sadly true.

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Pierre Phaneuf
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