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- From: craigm@egnext1.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Craig Markwardt)
- Subject: Re: borlandc++ and MSC++ DLLs
- In-Reply-To: tpurves@sygnus.uucp's message of Fri, 22 Jan 1993 01:27:20 GMT
- Message-ID: <CRAIGM.93Jan23140053@egnext1.SLAC.Stanford.EDU>
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- Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
- References: <749@lax.lax.pe-nelson.com> <C13v5G.1xn@panix.com>
- <CRAIGM.93Jan19132529@egnext1.SLAC.Stanford.EDU>
- <1993Jan22.012720.28932@sygnus.uucp>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 22:00:57 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan22.012720.28932@sygnus.uucp> tpurves@sygnus.uucp (Timothy Purves) writes:
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- In article <CRAIGM.93Jan19132529@egnext1.SLAC.Stanford.EDU> craigm@egnext1.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Craig Markwardt) writes:
- >
- >In article <C13v5G.1xn@panix.com> rryan@panix.com (Rob Ryan) writes:
- >
- >BC++ also has specialized Windows features which do not appear in any
- >other version of C++ that I know of. These are incompatible with all
- >other C++ compilers. Microsoft, in their MFC package, has used an
- >underhanded loophole in the C++ spec to accomplish their goals, which
- >BC++ later incorporated as well, but there are no other compilers out
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- What "underhanded loophole". Please explain.
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- Sorry, I don't have the original news article any more, but it was my
- understanding that Microsoft used a rather hazily undocumented
- "feature" of C++ in their MFC package, which allows messaging to be
- done. Borland had to modify their compiler to take advantage of this
- "feature" and use MFC.
-
- Craig
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