Re: programming in C++ ?

FROM : Thomas Engelmeier
DATE : Sun Feb 03 17:44:22 2008

On 01.02.2008, at 18:35, John Stiles wrote:

> Well, most C++ code should be using new and not malloc() anyway. 
> malloc() is a holdover from the Bad Untyped Days of C.


That particular API has some semantics that proliverate bad 
programming practice, anyway - structs with trailing variable length 
data buffers. A lot of C casts, offsetof and whatever.

Regards,
   Tom_E