<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div>I don't know whether C++ does the same (there is the issue of where it sticks the vtable, and I'm not sure what else).</div>
<div>I imagine there will be no problem, since we've been compiling the PETSc C code with C++ compilers for a decade now,</div><div>but I don't know whether the C++ standard guarantees that.</div></blockquote><div>
<br></div><div>Reading the wiki on C++0x, it seems that it is guaranteed following some guidelines:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B0x#Modification_to_the_definition_of_plain_old_data">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B0x#Modification_to_the_definition_of_plain_old_data</a></div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div>Jed is the only person I know that actually reads the standard (or maybe it's part of the ABI).</div>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Heh, yeah. Jed will have to verify about the guidelines and what-not for sure.</div><div><br></div><div>Sean </div></div>