From: Chris Blizzard <blizzard@mozilla.org>
To: Stuart Ballard <sballard@netreach.net>
Cc: "Aaron M. Renn" <arenn@urbanophile.com>,
Paul Fisher <pnfisher@redhat.com>,
java-discuss@sourceware.cygnus.com, classpath@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Proposal for CNI/JNI problems
Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2000 00:00:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <388794E7.B0696684@mozilla.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <387E2122.7062DA39@netreach.net>
Stuart Ballard wrote:
>
> "Aaron M. Renn" wrote:
> >
> > Paul Fisher (pnfisher@redhat.com) wrote:
> > > > (1) Is it OK to write Classpath in C++ rather than C?
> > >
> > > Yes.
>
> I don't see a problem with this. After all, Mozilla does this and is
> still extremely portable. We should be careful about using some of the
> less widely-deployed features, though, just as Moz is.
>
If you want to do this you might want to look at the C++ portability
guidelines that Mozilla has in place. These rules are a result of many years
of pain at Netscape porting their code base to 20 some-odd platforms.
--Chris
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Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-04-01 0:00 Paul Fisher
2000-04-01 0:00 ` Per Bothner
2000-04-01 0:00 ` Jochen Hoenicke
2000-04-01 0:00 ` Per Bothner
2000-04-01 0:00 ` Jon Olson
2000-04-01 0:00 ` Stuart Ballard
2000-04-01 0:00 ` Paul Fisher
2000-04-01 0:00 ` Aaron M. Renn
2000-04-01 0:00 ` Stuart Ballard
2000-04-01 0:00 ` Chris Blizzard [this message]
2000-04-01 0:00 ` Chris Blizzard
2000-04-01 0:00 ` Per Bothner
2000-04-01 0:00 ` Bernd Kreimeier
2000-04-01 0:00 ` Per Bothner
2000-04-01 0:00 ` Bernd Kreimeier
2000-04-01 0:00 ` Per Bothner
2000-04-01 0:00 ` Bernd Kreimeier
2000-04-01 0:00 ` Per Bothner
2000-04-01 0:00 ` Bernd Kreimeier
2000-04-01 0:00 ` Per Bothner
2000-04-01 0:00 ` Bernd Kreimeier
2000-04-01 0:00 ` Alexandre Oliva
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-04-01 0:00 Lam.Mark
2000-04-01 0:00 ` Aaron M. Renn
2000-04-01 0:00 ` Brian Jones
2000-04-01 0:00 Boehm, Hans
2000-04-01 0:00 David Pettersson
2000-04-01 0:00 ` Per Bothner
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