mp@andante.UUCP (Mark Plotnick) (11/16/89)
Can anyone tell us something about Sun C++? The only info we've been
able to get from Sun is a press release, which says it's available in
October, costs $1200 quantity 1, is based on AT&T C++ 2.0, and presumably
works with dbx (the press release says "Sun has enhanced its dbx and
dbxtool window-based debugger to support object-oriented programming by
providing source level debugging capabilities.").
I'd be interested in knowing how it differs from C++ 2.0, what the
quantity discounts are, and what architectures it runs on.
Mark Plotnick
mp@allegra.att.comakenning@pico.oz (Alan Kennington) (11/20/89)
In article <25950@andante.UUCP> mp@andante.UUCP (Mark Plotnick) writes: >Can anyone tell us something about Sun C++? The only info we've been >able to get from Sun is a press release, which says it's available in >October, costs $1200 quantity 1, is based on AT&T C++ 2.0, [...] We've got a copy for a Sparc Station 1, just to check it out. So far, I've tried to compile 7000 lines with it, but only 120 lines actually compile without an internal error - "bus error or something nasty like that", it said. But I know someone in Melbourne who reckons it works okay over there. Apparently there's some problem with dynamic libraries. So it has to be built with static libraries. In the lines that did compile, there were a lot of complaints by the compiler about things which didn't worry the Oregon C++ compiler at all. But that's normal. No two C++ compilers have the same definition of the language at the moment. The thing that seems to make the compiler get a bus error is encountering a function definition which returns a reference to a class object. It drops when it sees the parentheses "()". Does anyone know any more about this? Alan Kennington.