On Wed, May 01, 2024 at 09:40:16PM -0700, Roman Kiryanov wrote: > Hi QEMU, > > I work in Android Studio Emulator and we would like to develop devices > in C++. Unfortunately, QEMU headers cannot be used with C++ as is > (e.g. they use C++ keywords as variable names or implicitly cast void* > to T*).
NB, in recent past QEMU explicitly eliminated almost[1] all C++ code from the tree, because the consensus was to be exlcusively a C project. > Will QEMU be open to accept patches from us to make QEMU headers C++ > compatible? Personally I think that'd be a retrograde step. Any downstream development fork that made use of that facility would be not be able to feed changes / additions back into upstream QEMU codebase at a later date, without QEMU accepting C++ code once again. We'll never control what forks can do, and many will never feed back code regardless, but IMHO we should be steering external developers in a way that keeps open the door for their changes to be merged back upstream. With regards, Daniel [1] Only some minor windows installer code remains C++. -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|
