Re: [orbitcpp-list] back with a vengeance :)

[Phil d. <ph...@us...>]

Andreas Kloeckner wrote:
> 
> Hi Phil & folks,
> 
> i'm back from the dead, finally... the calculus exam is over! hooray!
> two dumb weeks of studying, six hours of examination spread across two
> days, phew...
> (we'll see about the "hooray" when i get my results, but for now i'm
> just happy that i will definitely not have to do all this stuff again
> :-)
> 

I know how you feel. The time after my finals was fantastic. The best
thing is being able to watch tv without feeling guilty for not revising!

> back to some "real work" then...
> 
> * do you see any problems with having the skels use virtual inheritance?
> 

Don't think so. The skeletons can be as elaborate as we like, since
AFAIK there's no way we can make them 'binary compatible'.

> * the 0.26 release is awfully broken. i noticed that i slipped in some
> code that dumb-loops the compiler on any occurence of inheritance. we'd
> better get 0.27 out the door before anyone notices...
> 

hmmm... How about after the weekend? I should have the unbounded
sequence stuff finished by then.

> * some things concerning tonight's commit:
> 

Doh! I've got some sequence code to commit. Better get merging...

> - new: the notion of "type containers". up to now, the compiler just
> threw away any types declared inside an interface. to remedy this, i've
> introduced type container classes, which are classes that sit in the
> same namespace hierarchy as their real-life stub counterparts, but under
> "_orbitpp::type_container". the compiler translates iface-scope types
> into types inside these containers, from where they are imported into
> stubs and skels by means of inheritance. unfortunately, even though
> these container classes don't have data members, gcc makes them have
> size 1. thus, the stub binary footprint is no more the same as C
> ORBit's. yet, i hope this does not
> matter because gcc hopefully never accesses this memory.
 
Hmmm sounds dodgy ;-)
Could it be something to do with rtti?

> - for the rest of the changes, see the cvs log entry.

Got it.


Cheers,

Phil.