Hi I spend some time and tested a little C99 versus C++ on the Arm-Core and found out C99 makes some times much better code.
Hope this Helps ;-) rgs Harry > Am 10.08.2015 um 19:26 schrieb jan i <j...@apache.org>: > > Hi > > Peter and I talked the other day and among others about the benefits of > using C++ instead of sticking to C99. > > This would be a major change in the project (less in the code, more in the > "how to"), and it is > not something we should "just" do. > > I favor C++, but not unlimited, I see 2 places where C++ can give us more > stable code: > - Interfaces. > Using classes to group our functions (like e.g. platform, core, filters/odf > etc.), > would make it very clear where the function originates. It would also allow > group global variables that are private to the rest of the world. > I would not use real interface classes, for our internal grouping, that is > not needed. But e.g. the DocFormats API should be a real interface class > - Automatic. > At the moment we have a lot of code managing construction/deconstruction, > that could be totally automated by use of C++ smart pointers. > - Object model (filters, flat and core) > would be more logically represented as objects, and suddenly copying etc. > would be a lot easier. > > I would not like to see big inheritance (especially not multiple > inheritance). > > I fail to see what we loose by making the change, but please give your > opinion. > > rgds > jan i. > > Ps. This is in no way a vote thread, but simply a way to gather opinions.
