Re: c code vs c++ code

[Steve Baker <sjbaker1@airmail.net>]

Gianfranco Berardi wrote:
> Steve Baker wrote:
> 
>>> I'm wondering if there is some benefit to using the C code rather than
>>> the C++ code.  Is it possibly better for porting to other systems?  Or
>>> is it simply programmer preference?
>>
>>
>>
>> Programmer preference - I'm sure.
> 
> 
> Actually I believe that currently it is easier to port C code simply 
> because of projects like Wine. I remember that only C code is much 
> easier to make cross platform using Wine or some offshoot of it, but at 
> the same time, if you program it correctly, it should be perfectly fine. 
> I mean, if I had my program deal directly with the bits, there might be 
> an issue, but I made a higher level struct/class, then so long as the 
> implementation was ported, then the higher level code was portable.
> 
> So I have to agree in the end, it is programmer preference to a degree, 
> but also in the current state of things, the Wine project has made C 
> code more easily portable.
> 
> Feel free to disagree. I am only going on what I remember reading 
> somewhere, so I could be wrong. Arguments are meant to gain knowledge.

Eh? I don't understand.

C (or C++ for that matter) is portable between Linux and Windows (and
most other OS's for that matter) without resorting to WINE.

My 76,000 line PLIB library ports just fine between half a dozen 
different OS's.

Portability issues mainly come up with incompatible system calls
(eg Windoze has 'Sleep()' and Linux has 'sleep()')...there are very
few language-related issues in porting code these days.

WINE is for binary compatibility - and once your program is compiled,
it doesn't matter what language it started off as - it's machine code
now.

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