Author: Peter McKenzie
Date: 14:42:38 03/02/03
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On March 02, 2003 at 16:34:34, Ulrich Tuerke wrote:
>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.
Thanks for that, maybe I'll give it another shot...
>
>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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