Steve Youngs <steve@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> The question wasn't only about bug #8, it was about, what was it you
> said... "future design/style". If you really want to change effi.c so
> it compiles with g++, you can. But it really isn't necessary. I'm
> sure you can think of better things to do with your very valuable
> time. Hint: FFI documentation. :-)
>
> > Can we wait with droping supporting C++ for half a year or so, to see
> > whether droping is really needed? Droping needed only in situation
> > when supporting gives lesser benefits than effort provided to keep
> > support -- and i think we are not yet in situation like this ..
>
> Considering...
>
> - the number of C hackers vs C++ hackers we have
>
> - the number of systems that _don't_ have gcc
>
> - the number of people with systems in the previous point who would
> be a subset of the number of people who would _ever_ consider
> compiling SXEmacs
>
> ...I disagree.
Actually after some experiments with various versions of g++ I vote
for droping C++ compilers support, at least i won't even try to write
in 'C compilable with C++ compiler' 8-)
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lg
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