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Message-ID: <20121130202546.GA32305@port70.net>
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 21:25:46 +0100
From: Szabolcs Nagy <nsz@...t70.net>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Summary of 1.0 marketing plan/scheme/nefarious plot from
IRC.
* Rich Felker <dalias@...ifal.cx> [2012-11-30 14:05:26 -0500]:
> On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 03:29:31PM +0100, Luca Barbato wrote:
> > HarfBuzz isn't that strange not-quite-C++-yet-C++ franken-library?
>
> Bleh, it looks like it was converted to C++ at some point. This is a
> major disappointment. Add "opentype interpreter" to the list of core
> system components that need to be replaced... Fortunately, I think
> this is something that can be done in at most a couple thousand lines
> of C.
>
> .. WTF. On looking at it again, it seems to be C source with .cc
> extension on all the source files. No idea what they were thinking.
> I'd be interested in hearing the story on this.
>
it seems it has extern c interface
but internally it uses methods and some templates
(i didnt see constructors, destructors, exceptions
nor any libstdc++ dependency so it's mostly c with
minor c++ syntax sugar)
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