Re: [aspell-devel] ANNOUNCE: Patch so that Aspell with Compile with VC++

[Kevin Atkinson]

On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Christoph Hintermüller wrote:

> >   It's a bit of a mess, we were not very consistent in our editing. We
> >   went for the quickess fix, so a few things were just disabled, like
> >   file locking and locales. And we had to remove a few const.
> >
> > I, the author of Aspell, do not even know if it will work or the other
> > steps needed to get Aspell to compile under Win32.  If you have
> > problems with this patch please contact Francois Boudreau
> > <address@hidden> and not me since I do not have a copy of VC++
> > and in general dislike Microsoft Windows.
> >
> Me too is not verry proud of Win(Dos) stuff but during my diploma thesis and 
> in future for my work I'll have to develope the utilities for both 
> Unix/Linux(the entire developement system) Win(dos) (the system adopted too.
> Therefore I had a glimps at the patch and i can say that most of the changes 
> are simply removed gcc features and conveniences. 

Um could you point out some examples of "removed gcc features and 
conveniences" almost all of those changes were do to VC++ not being able 
to handle standard compliant code.

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