Proposal for CNI/JNI problems

Sat Apr 1 00:00:00 GMT 2000

Stuart Ballard wrote:
>> "Aaron M. Renn" wrote:
> >
> > Paul Fisher (pnfisher@redhat.com) wrote:
> > > > (1) Is it OK to write Classpath in C++ rather than C?
> > >
> > > Yes.
>> I don't see a problem with this. After all, Mozilla does this and is
> still extremely portable. We should be careful about using some of the
> less widely-deployed features, though, just as Moz is.
>
If you want to do this you might want to look at the C++ portability
guidelines that Mozilla has in place. These rules are a result of many years
of pain at Netscape porting their code base to 20 some-odd platforms.
--Chris
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