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RE: Exception: STATUS_PRIVILEGED_INSTRUCTION occurs before main is executed.



>-----Original Message-----
>From: Max Bowsher [mailto:maxb at ukf dot net] 
>Sent: 06 March 2003 11:39
>To: Bruce Adams [TEPG Sunbury]
>Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
>Subject: Re: Exception: STATUS_PRIVILEGED_INSTRUCTION occurs 
>before main is executed.
>
>
>Bruce Adams [TEPG Sunbury] wrote:
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Brian Ford [mailto:ford at vss dot fsi dot com]
>>> It is not legal to use gcc for compiling c++ code.  You 
>must use g++.
>>>
>> This is not true.
>> I use gcc -x c++ which should be identical.
>
>I believe that g++ will auto-include standard C++ libraries, 
>but gcc -xc++ will not.
>
>Max.
>
That makes sense.  Presumably I should only use gcc -x c++ if
I wish to use an alternative library implementation such as STLPort
which I have been considering (in order to test portability).

Regards,
	 Bruce.



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