Author: Frank Phillips
Date: 11:32:53 03/02/03
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On March 02, 2003 at 14:12:46, Peter McKenzie wrote:
>I tried it and decided not to continue with it. It is quite a nice package,
>although the gui is a little dated. However I had a number of problems when
>trying to compile my chess program which lead me to the conclusion that the C++
>implementation in Watcom is very old, from the mid 1990s approximately.
>
>For example, it doesn't handle the 'new' scoping rule that applies to the
>following style of for loop:
>
>for (int i=0; i < N; i++) {
> do_stuff;
>}
>// now i should be out of scope
>
>Also, I couldn't find any support for 64bit integers.
>
>For my purposes GCC is much better and I found a nice IDE wrapped around GCC for
>Windows at www.bloodshed.net.
>
>cheers,
>Peter
Peter
Timely comments, I was just thinking about downloading OpenWatcom.
I downloaded Bloodshed Dev C++ for my old W2K box. Nice package. Once I had
all the paths set in the right order, compilation worked fine, although gcc is
slow for me compared to Intel under Linux. How did you get it to display 64 bit
integers: %llu does not work?
Frank
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