[openbeos] Re: PPC versions
- From: "Michael Phipps" <mphipps1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 21:54:06 -0400
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>It's not about making things easy. It's about not making things hard.
>The two are very different. It's the same argument as not writing all
>your code in x86 assembler. Writing in C/C++ isn't a good idea because
>it makes a PPC port easier but because it doesn't make a port *harder*.
>Remember the original subject of my e-mail: how not to *actively
I don't think that the two compare. Writing in C/C++ makes coding faster, more
bug free and easier. Putting _EXPORT in front of some (but not all) of your
classes
and/or functions makes coding slower.
>prevent* a ppc port. Not only that, _EXPORT makes code more readable.
There is no evidence to support this at all. At the very most, this would be
an issue of opinion.
>It seperates the external API from the internal support environment and
>marks what can and cannot be changed without breaking compatibility.
>All too often in the OBOS code I've seen, this distinction has become
>blurred.
We have a wonderful guide to this - the BeBook.
>> I agree, here. But there are a very small number of people with PPCs
>> that can help.
>> And the trouble of adding *stuff* to the code to support a 5 year old
>> compiler/proprietary
>> file format combination just doesn't seem worthwhile to me.
>
>It's not to support PEF/mwcc. It's too avoid writing code that uses *
>GCC-only extensions*. The world out there is bigger than x86/gcc, and
>we should code with that in mind.
Excuse me? Maybe I missed something. PPC/ELF doesn't require _EXPORT.
Secondly, not using _EXPORT is ***NOT*** a GCC-only extension.
Solaris Forte, as a counterpoint, doesn't require them.
Windows has them, Macs have them, but that is not sufficient to make it a
standard.
In fact, anything that starts with an _[A-Z] is reserved for implementation
specific
"stuff". (Draft Standard 2.10.2). So, I guess I can agree with you - the world
IS bigger than
any particular compiler and we should avoid compiler specific issues.
So, no, _EXPORT is *STILL* not required. Or even encouraged.
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