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Subject: Re: Visual Studio 2005 - forced users using MS function stuff ?

Author: Tom Likens

Date: 05:57:06 12/16/05

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On December 16, 2005 at 07:32:42, Daniel Mehrmannn wrote:

>Hello,
>
>i'm trying here currently the new Visual Studio 2005 professional.
>I'm shocked about the first compiler results of homer.
>It looks like that MS now forcing the users to leave the ANSI way and
>using Microsoft special functions instead.
>That would be not so stuid if you could disable this stuff.
>But there is no other way than editing the SDK files - which is bullshit
>(sorry).
>
>
>May i did an error here ?
>
>Best,
>Daniel

Hello Daniel,

There was actually a bit of an uproar on the net over this recently.
The problem is that these functions are *not* deprecated in the C++ standard.
The terminology "deprecated" has a specific meaning and wheter a function is
deprecated or not is set by the C++ standards committee, *not* Microsoft.
I believe Microsoft admitted the snafu and has relented, so future versions
of the compiler won't use the word "deprecated" in the warnings.

Here's a link with a bit more information:

http://www.informit.com/guides/content.asp?g=cplusplus&seqNum=259&rl=1

regards,
--tom

P.S. Of course, this doesn't solve your problem--unfortunately, since I don't
use this compiler I don't really have an answer for you (sorry).



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