Re: [PATCH kvm-unit-tests 2/4] Introduce a C++ wrapper for the kvm APIs

[Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>]

On 11/24/2010 07:17 PM, Jes Sorensen wrote:
> >
> >  Anyone wishing to implement this interface is forced to implement read
> >  and write methods (callbacks) with exactly the right signature.  The
> >  compiler will complain if they don't.  So if File is a good interface,
> >  we can make the compiler force people to use it correctly.
> >
> >  We can emulate this in C with ->ops->  things, but that's just
> >  boilerplate and more places for people to get things wrong, or lazy and
> >  take shortcuts.
>
> In the mean time we spend our time debugging the runtime because the
> virtual functions don't behave as expected. In C we know what is going
> on, in C++ it is pray and hope.

That is pure bullshit.  All major browsers are written in C++, all major 
office suites, one leading free desktop, google, countless other 
projects.  There is a lot more C++ code in the world than C code.  If 
virtual functions didn't behave as expected, surely we'd hear by now.

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