[petsc-dev] Compiling C code with C compiler

[Sean Farley]

>
> 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).
> I imagine there will be no problem, since we've been compiling the PETSc C
> code with C++ compilers for a decade now,
> but I don't know whether the C++ standard guarantees that.
>

Reading the wiki on C++0x, it seems that it is guaranteed following some
guidelines:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B0x#Modification_to_the_definition_of_plain_old_data


> Jed is the only person I know that actually reads the standard (or maybe
> it's part of the ABI).
>

Heh, yeah. Jed will have to verify about the guidelines and what-not for
sure.

Sean
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