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Should g++ have a stdio.h file?  The installation here didn't have one, 
and when I complained about it, the admins completely reinstalled g++.  
It was STILL missing stdio.h.  They told me that they FTP'd it twice and 
were very careful about the installation, but it just doesn't have 
stdio.h.  I need it for things like sscanf.

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If I have a member function that overloads the unary minus operator, is 
the 'this' object the object that the minus is attached to, or is it a 
temporary copy?

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I have Stroustrup's book on C++, and his use of the terms 'declaration' 
and 'definition' are odd to me.

I was taught that a definition is something that simply describes the
structure of something, such as a function prototype, a struct
description, an extern statement, or or anything that doesn't create or
state an actual object but refers to an actual object somewhere else or
describes what something should look like. 

A declaration is where an actual instance of something is given or 
created.  An actual function, a local or global variable statement, etc.

But Stroustrup seems to get them mixed up a bit.  He calls an extern a 
declaration... but it's not declaring anything... it's simply defining 
what the object elsewhere looks like.  He calls a statement that creates 
an actual variable a definition, but you're not defining it, you're 
declaring it to actually exist there.  With a few exceptions, 
Stroustrup's book uses definition and declaration completely reverse of 
what I was taught in school and by books on programming C that I have read.

Is he making a mistake or am I?

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