[gnu.g++.bug] latest GNU C++ 1.35.0- test release

tiemann@YAHI.STANFORD.EDU (Michael Tiemann) (05/07/89)

The latest GNU C++ 1.35.0- test release is available by anonymous ftp
from yahi.stanford.edu.  This release has many 2.0 features waiting to
be tested.  For example, unless you use extern "C" properly, your
files will come up with undefined external references, since all
functions declared in C++ scope are assumed to have C++ linkage.
If this is not the behavior you want immediately (Doug Lea will want
this, since he will want to know where the problems are), you should
add this line to cplus-tree.h:

#define NO_EXTERN_C

and that *should* revert to normal behavior.

I have run this compiler across oops and libg++, hacking extern "C"
declarations as I go, and it passes the few multiple inheritance tests
I have given it.  Tomorrow I will run it across InterViews (again),
and hopefully I can release it after it passes that.  I welcome all of
you to try running it on your code, and alerting me to any problems
you encounter.

This is the file to get:

yahi% ls -l g++.xtar.Z
-rw-rw-rw-  1 tiemann    893561 May  7 01:35 g++.xtar.Z

Michael