[Techtalk] portable code :-)

[Jenn Vesperman]

> Kathryn Hogg wrote:
> > 
> > After programming in C++ for 14 years, I'm just wrapping up
> > porting our code (1.3 million lines) to standard C++.  I didn't do all the
> > work, I just made sure that people did things smartly.  Our code runs on
> > Linux with gcc, HPUX with aCC, Digital Unix (cxx), Solaris (Sun CC), AIX
> > (Visual Age compiler), and windoze (msvc++) so I'm a little persnickity
> > about writing portable code and working around variances in different
> > compilers.

Ooh oooh ooh! We're going to be - maybe - writing an app which needs
portability. (Contracts under negotiation, massive NDAs, yadda yadda.
Don't you love the proprietary world? Oh well, it pays.)

Any chance of a summary? Maybe one that we can post to Linuxchix
somewhere? 

Hrm. May need a techtips page. Or forum.
Or would this be an LDP-able thing?



Jenn V.
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