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Re: KDE hackers, please read (was [nathan@codesourcery.com: Re: GCC
- From: Joe Buck <jbuck at synopsys dot COM>
- To: mark at codesourcery dot com (Mark Mitchell)
- Cc: jbuck at synopsys dot COM (Joe Buck), l dot lunak at sh dot cvut dot cz (Lubos Lunak),kde-core-devel at mail dot kde dot org (kde-core-devel at mail dot kde dot org),Franz dot Sirl-kernel at lauterbach dot com (Franz Sirl),gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org (gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org)
- Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 11:44:14 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: Re: KDE hackers, please read (was [nathan@codesourcery.com: Re: GCC
> Yes, if you really, really know what you are doing and you are willing
> to write code that is unportable, or that does not make use of many
> language features, and you know the ABI, you may be able to get away
> with this.
>
> You are, however, playing with fire.
No kidding. Elaborate reference counting mechanisms to make sure we don't
delete code objects where we still have data objects whose vtables don't
point there, the quirks of five completely distinct dynamic linking
systems on different OSes, etc. On the other hand, I used g++ in 1990.
That was fire, man.