Re: Use of deprecated C++ in DDD

[Arnaud Desitter]

andrew.marlow@hsbcib.com wrote:
> 
> I am trying to build DDD on HPUX 10.20B using aCC and have

Which version of aCC ?

> come across several compiler warnings about the use of
> file-scoped static. The compiler says it is ignoring the storage class
> directive. This is a warning, not an error, so the build proceeds but the

Are you talking about warning related to code such as

extern "C" {
  static void foo(){}
}

?
aCC complains unduly as it doesn't implement standard C++  properly
in that respect. See Section 9.2.5 of The C++ Programming Language
by B. Stroustrup.

> executable will not work properly. I understand that file-scoped static

Not true IMO. Can you elaborate ? And can you provide an example ?

> has been (relatively) recently deprecated by ANSI so I understand
> why the compiler does this. It is a pity that it does the wrong thing though.
> It stops DDD from working properly. Are there any plans to replace
> the file-scoped statics with class-scoped statics ?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Andrew M.
> 

Regards,

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