[Pixman] [PATCH/RFC 0/4] New option to build pixman as C++ code (--enable-enforced-cplusplus)

[Siarhei Siamashka]

On Sun, 16 Dec 2012 15:34:57 -0500
Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at behdad.org> wrote:

> On 12-12-16 12:13 AM, Siarhei Siamashka wrote:
> > Any comments or ideas? Hopefully not a C vs. C++ flamewar :)
> 
> I would go as far as suggesting that C++ becomes a requirement.  I did that in
> HarfBuzz and never looked back.  It's possible to use many useful features of
> the language (templates, etc) without linking to libstdc++, so from the user's
> point of view there's absolutely no difference between that kind of a library
> and a C library.

One problem with these useful C++ features is that making use of them,
we are wilfully becoming the hostages of a compiler. But the real
existing compilers are struggling even to handle inline functions
without bugs and performance regressions:
    http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54965

So I'm leaning to remain conservative and initially use C++ features
only as a debugging aid. Just like OpenMP, gcc vector extensions,
128-bit float types and the other fancy compiler features are only
used (or proposed to be used) in the test suite.

-- 
Best regards,
Siarhei Siamashka