Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 18:42:15 +0200 From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: Don Dugger <dugger@hotlz.com> Cc: Dan Strick <strick@covad.net>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why is not more FreeBSD software written in C++? Message-ID: <86d5f9pno8.fsf@xps.des.no> In-Reply-To: <44490663.3040506@hotlz.com> (Don Dugger's message of "Fri, 21 Apr 2006 09:20:51 -0700") References: <44490663.3040506@hotlz.com>
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Don Dugger <dugger@hotlz.com> writes: > The fact is that all your c code will compile in c++ That is wrong. To name just one example, C++ is much stricter about type casts than C is. > and the c++ compiler may optimize better then the c compiler. I doubt it. It is the exact same compiler with the exact same optimizer and the exact same code generator. The only difference between gcc and g++ is the parser. > C++ and C are languages that are defined by ANSI No they're not. It may surprise you to learn that there is a whole world outside the USA which does not care one whit about ANSI. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no
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