I have been using MS Visual C++ 6.0 on and off for about 2 years. Anyway, I am writing a program using a templated class, but Visual 6.0 does not like this. I keep getting compiler errors. So I looked up the error message and found that there is a bug in the software when using templated classes.

I know my code works b/c I have compiled it using a different compiler at school.

Does anyone know of a fix for this or give me some advice on this issue?

Thanks!

Maybe if you post the code in question (and tell someone what compiler you used for which it worked and what the results are supposed to be, and ...) then someone could contribute some understanding.

VC++ 6 has lots of known bugs, and I would fell silly trying to list them all and maybe get lucky to the extent of hitting on your particular error, much less suggesting a workaround (if it exists).

Regards,

Dave

Ok, rather than posting my code, can you suggests a good compiler that can handle templates, etc....... for c++ code? I have MS Vis. C++ 6.0, but I don't necessarily have to use it. I would prefer a compiler that works instead of having to alter all of my code in order for it to work on that compiler.

Thanks!

I'm sure others on this board do more MFC/VC++ programming than I do. My problem is that when saddled with other people's code with various Microsoft-specific "features", I don't usually know how to work around them with other, more robust, compilers (the GNU mingw g++ with dev-c++, for example). I usually just start over. Sometimes the code is actually non-standard, and by fixing the code, other the Microsoft-specific bugs move around to somewhere less malignant, and the others compilers can handle it also.

I wonder if newer Microsoft Visual C++ (.Net versions) have bug fixes that address the problems you have found? I'll bet someone here (not me) can answer specific questions that you have.

I'm sorry that I can't be more helpful.

Regards,

Dave

Well, could you at list show us the errors you got? Maybe we'll be able to fix them without changing your compiler. Of course there are bugs , and indeed .NET solved some of them (but I don't have a list).

This might seem obvious to you, but just in case: don't try to put a template class' definition in the header and it's implementation in a separate .cpp. Just in case...

Kind regards,
Lucain

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