Re: [Texmacs-dev] GCC 3.2 status update

[Joris van der Hoeven]

> When I talk of "moder casting techniques" I am talking of static_cast
> (mostly) and reinterpret_cast (if really needed) which perform purely
> static casts and have NO performance overhead compared to C. They are
> just more obvious and safer w.r.t. the allowed conversions.

If they do the same thing, I do not see why they would be safer
(joking, but not completely).

> What does have a time overhead it dynamic_cast, which anyway requires
> RTTI information which is not part of the C++ dialect used in TeXmacs.
> TeXmacs should compile with --no-rtti. That option is just disabled
> because it caused link to fail on some obscure platform.

So, maybe you can write a patch for configure.in which fixes this...