Re: [Monotone-devel] 3rd party libraries

[Stephen Leake]

Markus Wanner <address@hidden> writes:

> Stephen Leake wrote:
>
>> You seem to be implying that a dynamically linked object file cannot
>> be compiled with a C++ compiler. Is that correct?
>
> An object file *is* compiled, it can only be linked against other
> compiled objects.

Obviously we don't want to re-compile the system library.

But is there some reason it wasn't compiled with C++ in the first place?

> The difference here is between compiling the lua source code with a C or
> a C++ compiler. Only the later can throw exceptions, the former only
> knowns longjmp/setjmp functions to provide similar behaviour.

That part I understand.

There seems to be an assumption that system libraries are _not_
compiled with C++. 

I suspect that's because there is no system library naming convention
that distinguishes between otherwise identical libraries, one compiled
with C++, one with C.

But I could be wrong.

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-- Stephe