Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Dec 2004 18:44:13 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: What if? |
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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.
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