[comp.lang.c++] Problem with Zortech C++

mardm@levels.sait.edu.au (07/31/89)

I've discovered what could be a problem in the Zortech C++ Compiler (1.07e).

Heres the CPP program: (small memory model)

//----------------
#include <stdio.h>

class TestClass {
int im_current;
public:
 void PrintTheItem(const int which);
 TestClass();
};

void TestClass::PrintTheItem(const int which)
{printf("%d ",which);
}

TestClass::TestClass()
{
 im_current=1234;
 for (int menu_selection=1;menu_selection<10;menu_selection++)
  {printf("Setting...");
   PrintTheItem(im_current);
   im_current=menu_selection;
   PrintTheItem(im_current);
   printf("\n");
  }
}

main()
{TestClass * mymenu = new TestClass();
 delete TestClass;
}

Heres the output I get when I run it WITHOUT the optimiser:

Setting...1234 1234
Setting...1 1
Setting...2 2
Setting...3 3
Setting...4 4
Setting...5 5
Setting...6 6
Setting...7 7
Setting...8 8

...and heres the (expected) output which I do get when I run it WITH
the optimiser.

Setting...1234 1
Setting...1 2
Setting...2 3
Setting...3 4
Setting...4 5
Setting...5 6
Setting...6 7
Setting...7 8
Setting...8 9

It appears the assignment to im_current in TestClass() does not actually
occur until the end of the loop. Note that getting rid of the "const"
in the declaration of PrintTheItem fixes the problem.

O.K. so the obvious "solution" is to use the optimiser! But I can't afford the
time (the system takes > 20 minutes to fully compile as it is).

Oh yes, my setup:
12MHz AT Compat, 66 Meg Voice Coil HD with Cache & Co-Processor.

Thanks for any help...

Riccardo Macri,
Graduate, C++ Programmer (S/W Development)
S.A.I.T. (Levels)

mardm@levels.sait.oz

Roy.Browning@f506.n106.z1.fidonet.org (Roy Browning) (08/06/89)

 > From: mardm@levels.sait.edu.au
 > Date: 31 Jul 89 16:31:50 GMT
 > Organization: Sth Australian Inst of Technology
 > Message-ID: <937@levels.sait.edu.au>
 > Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++

 > I've discovered what could be a problem in the Zortech C++ Compiler 

 > main()
 > {TestClass * mymenu = new TestClass();
 >  delete TestClass;
 > }

 > O.K. so the obvious "solution" is to use the optimiser! But I can't 
 > afford the
 > time (the system takes > 20 minutes to fully compile as it is).
 > Oh yes, my setup:
 > 12MHz AT Compat, 66 Meg Voice Coil HD with Cache & Co-Processor.

 > Riccardo Macri,
 > Graduate, C++ Programmer (S/W Development)
 > S.A.I.T. (Levels)

main()
{
        TestClass a;
}

Riccardo:

        I managed to compile and duplicate your problem by changing the "main()" as above.  To be honest your code confused me.  For to me a "class" is fundamentally a type defined structure tag.  Thus "TestClass a;" will call the constructor.

        As to the compile time, your example took exactly 26.75 seconds to produce an excutable (optimized) on an IBM PC, 4.77 mhz (the slowest of the slow).  You might want to break you code into modules to see which functions/members are taking so long to compile.  Then you can always speed up the process by putting the object modules into a library.

                          Hobbyist, not a professor,

                                Roy Browning