Re: more from the BeOS port, questions

>>>>> "François" == François Revol <[email protected]> writes:

François> Hello folks, hmm, there doesn't seem to be much interest in BeOS
François> there...

I'm certainly curious about a BeOS port but I can't be of much help.  The
closest I've come to it is reading the developer docs (I love the database API
for the filesystem) but I don't have hardware that is capable of running it.

François> The only real problem was that despite that there are ifdefs for
François> _cplusplus in some code already, it seemed to assume that the whole
François> stuff was to be compiled as C++. I don't really see the interest in
François> compiling C files with g++...

XEmacs uses C++ as a 'better C', AKA using the much stricter type rules in C++
as a way of finding obscure bugs.  If you've been following the recent
discussion in -beta concerning Jerry's bignum patch you can see the value it
gives.

Since BeOS's API is C++ based, is there any reason why you don't want to
compile all of XEmacs with the C++ compiler?

Malcolm

-- 
	       Malcolm Purvis <[email protected]>

Q: Why did the chicken cross the Mobius strip?
A: To get to the other... uh... err...