[Portland] PortlandVFSProposal

[Alex Graveley]

Ya, realized I was talking out of my arse pretty quickly.  Don't send 
technical email first thing in the morning ;-)

-Alex

Dan Kegel wrote:
> On 1/11/06, Alex Graveley <alex at beatniksoftware.com> wrote:
>> It wouldn't be such a big deal, really.  Wrapping C++ in C would provide
>> a stable interface, no matter of C++ ABI breakage.
> 
> Sadly, this isn't quite true.  See
> http://plan99.net/autopackage/Linux_Problems#cxx
> http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21405
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2005-04/msg00928.html
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/libstdc++/2005-04/msg00177.html
> 
> The upshot is, any system library you want C apps to link to
> better not be written in C++, or you're asking for pain when
> it comes time to deploy in the real world.
> 
> This might improve in a few years, but I don't see any
> rush towards a solution.  The Intel guys presented a
> proposal at the last GCC summit, but I don't know if
> they're working on implementing it.
> - Dan
> 
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