Suggestions

Tony van der Hoff OSLib at mk-net.demon.co.uk
Fri Apr 28 11:45:21 BST 2000


On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, at 19:33:14, Ainsley Pereira
<marble at executor.karoo.co.uk> wrote on the subject "Suggestions":

>In message <iQGB8EAQxCC5EwJr at mk-net.demon.co.uk> you wrote:
>
>> In the RISC OS environment, the 'bug' actually only exists under G++.
>> Neither C nor CFront define bool at all. How come G++ doesn't spot the
>> mis-use of the bool keyword in types.h?
>
>It does. So far I'd just #ifdef'd it out myself, and -by luck- not
>actually used anything that passed a bool around.
>
Thank goodness for that! That reduces the status of this problem from a
serious bug to an incompatibility with G++. 

Any bugs out there are those caused by the user doing what you have
done. Furthermore, anyone who has done it will know about it, and be
able to fix it.

We must still make OSLib compatible, though!


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