On Mon, 31 Mar 1997, [iso-8859-1] Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote: > On Mon, 31 Mar 1997, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > > Unless GCC is some all powerfull god like compiler this exact problem > > exists in Linux too. Any shard code system basically breaks badly when you > > try and use C++. The problem is quite simply that C++ has no standards for > > binary class layout and no standard way to specify an order in the class > > as well as having no way to upgrade base classes without breaking the > > derived classes. > > I have read that Opendoc/SOM/Bento, etc would probavly be distributed > under GPL. And SOM is the solution to sharing classes... We'll what > happens...
I have used SOM before, unless it is integrated into the compiler (Direct to SOM is what IBM calls it) it is very irritating. Furthermore SOM has problems with some of C++'s features, mostly to do with multiple inheritance. Other than that, C++ encapsulated in SOM would be a wonderfull thing to have in Linux! Jason
