On Jan 19, 2009, at 7:11 AM, luis maldonado wrote:
Most of us are not as knowlegeable as you are on the inner workings
of c and c++ so why don't you gives a small sample of your
brilliance on the subject.
Why can't C++ be used on the palm os?
I wasn't originally going to respond to Dmitri's answer, because it
was flippant and added no real insight, but for others' benefit:
It's perfectly possible to use C++ successfully for Palm development,
and my company has successfully delivered many many titles over the
years and all of them use C++. Some caveats:
- rtti tends to be a memory hog, so it's not recommended.
- afaik, exceptions still don't work correctly under prc-tools/pods.
- the vtables are stored in global memory, so you can't use C++
objects with virtual methods unless you have globals.
- overuse of templates will often fill up the first segment and it's
difficult to map template functions into a different segment.
If you follow the above rules, you'll do fine with C++. Our projects
use an extensive class library that implements strings, vectors,
auto_ptrs (an an equivalent for resources), abstract database access,
and a lot of other useful classes.
C++ has significantly improved our development cycle; if you're
comfortable with C++ and OOP you should use it.
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Dave Carrigan
[email protected]
Seattle, WA, USA
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