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From: wgh@Grumpy.UUCP (William G. Hutchison)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: DOS C++ translator memory limitations
Summary: MS-DOS can't support cfront (memory)
Keywords: Guidelines Advantage
Message-ID: <354@Grumpy.UUCP>
Date: 21 Sep 88 12:21:39 GMT
References: <352@intek01.UUCP>
Organization: UNISYS CS, Blue Bell, PA
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In article <352@intek01.UUCP>, mark@intek01.UUCP (Mark McWiggins) writes:
>We have Guidelines' implementation of AT&T C++, but find its memory
>limitations annoying. It bombs with "out of memory"[on large code ]...
>Does the Glockenspiel/Oasys "Advantage C++" have this same limitation?

I made the mistake of buying Guidelines C++ and I found the same
thing: it works (but compiles slowly) for toy-sized programs, but it
runs out of memory when you do any significant class inheritance.
I don't have the Glockenspiel/Oasys version, but I think if you check
you will find that Guidelines and Oasys ported the same AT&T program:
cfront, the front end which translates C++ into C.  Unless Oasys
did magic, they should have the same memory problem (it is the same
program, after all!).
  There is a simple solution: Zortech C++ (Zortech, Inc., Arlington,
Massachusetts) has a native C++ (does not use cfront, goes directly
to .obj form) which compiles much faster than the cfront-based
versions, uses less memory, and costs lots less ($99).
  I have shifted to Zortech.
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