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"Davlet Panech" <Davlet.Panech@Tellabs.com> wrote in message
news:3BCDC564.8369F6B2@Tellabs.com...
> >
>
> >
> > Hi Davlet,
> > I've compiled and run the source with Borland C++Builder Version 3. If 0
is
> > entered first the program terminates without giving any message (as I
> > intended). Could this behaviour be compiler dependant?
> >
>
> Wayne,
>
> Following is the main function from the latest version of the program you
> posted. Clearly, 0 is a perfectly legal input as far as the current
iteration of
> the loop is concerned: `Year' is not tested until the next iteration; the
body
> of the loop will execute at least once regardless of what the user enters.
I
> can't believe this program ran without printing any messages after being
> compiled by Borland (a very good compiler that couldn't misbehave so
obviously).
>
> main()
> {
>     using namespace std;
>     while (Year != 0)     //Keep going till user enters 0
>     {
>         cout << "Enter the Year. Enter 0 to quit..." << endl;
>         cin >> Year;
>         cout << "The first day of " << Year;
>         if (Year <= This_Year)  //Has the year already passed?
>             cout << " was a " << GetFirstWeekDay(Year) << endl;
>         else
>             cout << " will be a " << GetFirstWeekDay(Year) << endl;
>      }
>      return 0;
> }
>
Hi Davlet,
Dammit, you're right. I've compiled this under GNU g++ and it prints "The
year 0...etc".

Easily fixed but can the Borland folks tell me why the compilers differ in
their behaviour?

Regards,
Wayne McDermott