Hi Marek, On 19 May, Marek Habersack wrote: > * Ossama Othman said: >, but rather to it's > implementation on the GNU platform, which is now in its young days - it's > constantly changing, the features are being added, standard being > implemented in more and more detail. This situation will no doubt incurr > many changes both in the source code of the programs (new keywords, syntax > changed at places, library classes etc.) but also in the generated binaries > interfaces - esp in the shared libraries.
I don't believe that the situation is nearly as bad as you depict it. A few years ago I would agree with you but the fact that there is now a standard means that the standard C++ APIs/keywords/syntax will generally not change. > > fairly stable in terms of existing language feature support. Stuff > > like RTTI and exception handling aren't major issues since they can > > easily be disabled. > But it DOES change the binary representation of the program, esp. name > mangling - which is the major headache with C++ right now. Again, I don't think the name mangling issue is so bad. Then again, I program exclusively in C++ so I am admittedly biased toward it. -Ossama -- Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Center for Distributed Object Computing, Washington University, St. Louis 58 60 1A E8 7A 66 F4 44 74 9F 3C D4 EF BF 35 88 1024/8A04D15D 1998/08/26