> First off. Since OpenSSL is written in C and not C++, you can
> link it easily into a web server regardless of whether the server is
> written in C or C++. This means language is not really an issue.
> On the other hand if OpenSSL were written in C++, then people
> like me would have to change the language extention to .cpp
> rather than .c when we run it through the GNU gcc compiler on
> systems such as linux and this will increase the code by about
> 50K (I tested it).
You don't have to change the extension to .cpp. You may use
the "extern C" directive. All Apache modules I made are written
in C++. I wrote a pattern that regains C++ objects out of a C code.
It't also easy to use C++ objects in a C code.
> If you are on an NT server - probably it doesn't
> matter because probably M$ has not bothered to support both C++
> and the C language subset and the VCC compiler
> _probably_ spits out the same code regardless. Now - I am
> guessing on this because I do not use VCC on NT. On NT I use
> Imprise (Borland) Proffessional builder 4.0 and everything I
> compile on the NT platform for me is C++ regardless. And at this
> point I don't really care anyway so I won't be digging into the
> bowels of Borland's compiler.
The problem is that a C++ .lib compiled with Borland can not
be used with the MS VC++ compiler and vice versa. I assume the
same is true for Unix compiles. It is not standardized how
objects are put into a .lib. You also may have a problem when
your C++ .lib has to be backward compatible. There you have to
take care how you build objects that are visible in the API.
Of course there exist a pattern too =).
> Ok - I'll talk about implementation methods 2 and 3. Apache uses
> #2 from what I can tell.
This is true for Unix systems. Apache for NT works with threads.
Regards Rene
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