Ian Romanick wrote: > Once upon a time, there was talk of converting some parts of Mesa to > C++. This was killed for a number of reasons, and these fell into > basically two categories: > > 1. C++ would make the drivers worse. > > 2. Linking with C++ libraries causes problems with applications. > > So far, a fair portion of my GLSL compiler work has been re-creating a > C++-like object heirarchy and management system. Frankly, the code > would be much better (for all definitions of better) if I could just > use C++. > > Has issue #2 been resolved? I recall that, for example, if ID's > Quake3 binary dynamically linked with a library that dynamically > linked with a different version of libstdc++, it would explode. Is > that still the case? If this is still a problem, will it affect LLVM > usage in Mesa?
2 is not an issue. libGLU uses C++ code. You just have to pass the -cplusplus flag to the mklib script. -Brian ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Mesa3d-dev mailing list Mesa3d-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mesa3d-dev
