The Old New Thing

Is it real that you are still using Visual C++ 6 and 5?

June 7, 2010 Jun 7, 2010 06/7/10

Raymond Chen

Commenter Sys64738 points out that Bjarne Stroustrup's Web site says that "Literally everything at Microsoft is built using various flavors of Visual C++ - mostly 6.0 and 7.0 but we do have a few holdouts still using 5.0 :-(" and wonders if it's true. Well, let's see. Visual C++ 6 came out in 1998 and doesn't support the /GS flag, nor does...