Why is not more FreeBSD software written in C++?

[Don Dugger]

Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:

>Don Dugger <dugger at hotlz.com> writes:
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>>Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des at des.no> writes:
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>>>Don Dugger <dugger at hotlz.com> writes:
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>>>>The fact is that all your c code will compile in c++
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>>>That is wrong.  To name just one example, C++ is much stricter about
>>>type casts than C is.
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>>I mean the constructs. Casting will not change the functionality or
>>shouldn't.
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>It does.  Casting can be (and often is) used to force or avoid sign
>promotion in function arguments; for instance, isspace(ch) may produce
>incorrect results if ch is a char, so a cast to int is required.
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>C allows any expression of pointer type to be assigned to a void *,
>and allows any expression of type void * to be assigned to any object
>pointer type.  C++ does not.  As a result, a typical C program which
>uses malloc() without casting the result will not compile cleanly with
>a C++ compiler.  A competent C programmer will balk at adding the cast
>that C++ requires; a competent C++ programmer will correctly point out
>that a C++ program should not use malloc() anyway.
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>There are other incompatiblities: const has different semantics in C
>and C++, namespaces aren't quite the same (there is no separation
>between the typedef namespace and the struct namespace in C++), etc.
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>DES
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And how does that change my point?

Don 8)