Matthieu Brucher wrote: > > > This can also be true of C code unless you use compilers in the same > > family. > There are also issues, but they are much simpler. > > The C++ name mangling can be worked around. > name mangling is just the top of the iceberg. There are problems > wrt to > static initialization, exception, etc...; ABI compatibility is much > easier to break in C++ than in C. And then, there is the problem > of C++ > ability of compilers. > > > > This is no longer the case, sincerely. I use C++ compilers from > different vendors for some time, and I had almost no problem safe from > some template depth issues. C++ ability is not so much a problem with recent compilers, I agree. But not all platforms are or can use a recent C++ compiler. In particular, proprietary UNIX. Now, maybe that's something we do not want to support. If we limit ourselves to gcc 4 and recent intel/MS compilers, then this issue indeed is moot, at least for basic things.
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