Re: [Texmacs-dev] GCC 3.2 status update

[David Allouche]

On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 06:23:37PM +0100, Joris van der Hoeven wrote:
> 
> > 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).

Because they do not allow everything that C style casts allow.

> > 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...

You already asked me at the time. But I found no way to detect it in
configure... that was a compiler bug which occured specifically when
compiling TeXmacs.

Yet we can re-enable -no-rtti then see if anyone complain.

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