Kevin O'Keefe wrote:
> You guys seem to have missed one of the biggest reasons to question the use
> of inheritance on the Palm OS, and this is because the vtables required to
> implement inheritance are implemented as global variables and, as such, are
> not available under some launch conditions. If it isn't a big loss to not
> handle "find" and other "sub-launch" launch codes, then go for it, but if
> you need to support these "sub-launches", then the need to carefully decide
> what classes can and cannot be implemented as sub-classes because they are
> used during "sub-launches" may make it more work than its worth.
That's a compiler issue, to some extent. I believe there are versions of the gcc
tools out there which seem to handle this a lot more intelligently than other tools.
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