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>>>Have you sent Stroustrup mail on BIX asking him if he has complete code for >>>this example? >>I will try to find his address and take it up with him. > >Please do not necessarily say I said for you to demand this from him. >As you are saying that the code is alledgedly incomplete as posted in *his* >book (and maybe he intended it that way), all I am saying then is that he is a >likely source of telling you where (if anywhere) to look in the book or >electronically somewhere. No, I'd never demand. (I think the French "demander" has a different connotation, though. I don't know if you are French, but your name sounds like it is. 😉 I just asked him as if the idea came from me. >>Your message gave me the idea to try to exactly >>duplicate Stroustrup's code. > >I guess I'm confused. I thought you said the S2 code was incomplete? Incomplete in the sense of requiring a lot of reading and page flipping to be sure the pieces are all part of the same puzzle. Also, first I tried to derive the nodes and lists from Amiga nodes and lists to derive some possible benefits from pre-existing Amiga utilities. Then your message gave me the idea to be more careful and go back to try Stroustrup's code exactly as it is. >>By doing that, I think I have found a bug >>in Cfront. I'm not sure whether it's an AT&T bug or a Comeau Computing >>bug (or my bug). By merely declaring two objects of similar but >>distinctly named classes (just before function "main"), I get the error: >>"aplist.h", line 116: internal <<AT&T USL C++ Language System <3.0> 09/15/91>> e > >Interesting, we compiled the code under MS-DOS, then UNIX SVR4 (and with >3.0.1 as well as 3.0 here), and then under AmigaDOS, and only the AmigaDOS one >produced the result you got (the others compiled fine). It blew up in a >routine which allocates more symbol table space for cfront. It does not >look like your bug, and 3.0 is known to have some template problems from >AT&T (I'll have to work on checking this out with a 3.0.1 under AmigaDOS). Now we're cookin'! Great! Please keep me posted. I'm not sure what I want to do without templates. I need them right away. Thanks for looking into this.