Author: Ulrich Tuerke
Date: 13:34:34 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.
There is a 46 bit int type:
__int64
supported by watcom. I use it to count the nodes.
Uli
>
>For my purposes GCC is much better and I found a nice IDE wrapped around GCC for
>Windows at www.bloodshed.net.
>
>cheers,
>Peter
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