Re: What if?

[H. Peter Anvin]

Alan Cox wrote:
> On Llu, 2004-12-13 at 21:08, J.A. Magallon wrote:
>
> > > Type-safe linkage, mainly.  That actually would be a nice thing.
> > And let the compiler do all what now is done by hand wrt driver methods,
> > inheritance, specialized methods and so on, with a 1000% increase in security
> > because compiler does not forget to do thinks, like we do ;)
>
> This is not a C++ thing per se however. A future gcc could do type safe
> linkage of C programs instead of C++.

Yes, but there is also no really big deal compiling C code with a C++ 
compiler.  Yes, it was a disaster in 0.99.14, but that was 10 years ago.

There is a huge difference between "C compiled with a C++ compiler" and 
the "go crazy with keeping the programmer in the dark" concept proposed 
by Mr. Magallon.

	-hpa
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