On Thu, 22 Jun 2006, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: >>> Is it technically possible to reimplement that c++ code in c? (This is >>> just theoretical question, I don't ask you to do it.) >> It is possible to move this code to libcolorer side and implement >> plain C API from library side - however this'll take more time and I >> see no reason in doing this. > > My question was if it is technically possible to rewrite the cpp code > for *mc* in c and (through trickery) still keep interface compatibility.
Not unless colorer exports C interfaces and it doesn't. The way it is implemented colorer exports a set of interfaces that one has to implement in terms of C++ classes. Theoretically it could be possible to create an C++ implementation of those interfaces, one that delegates the work to pure C functions. Again that means that colorer has to export a C. I don't see why this is such a big deal to you ? > A bit like linking Delphi (Pascal) to C code. This is possible through > compiler switches changing the stack cleanup behaviour (and probably > some alignment tricks). What about name mangling issues ? As I said above - you cannot avoid the C++ code. _______________________________________________ Mc-devel mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel
