Re: [PATCH qxl-wddm-dod v2 12/25] Rename mspace.c to mspace.cpp

[Frediano Ziglio <fziglio@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Frediano Ziglio" <fziglio@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Dmitry Fleytman" <dmitry@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Spice List" <spice-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, September 6, 2016 1:30:44 PM
Subject: Re: [PATCH qxl-wddm-dod v2 12/25] Rename mspace.c to        mspace.cpp

On 6 Sep 2016, at 15:07 PM, Frediano Ziglio <fziglio@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 9:26 PM, Frediano Ziglio <fziglio@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Why the rationale was removed?

By mistake, i'll add it back in the next version. 

By the way this was a workaround for a VS bug, get Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 (actually we are at update 3)

True, however microsoft recommends using visual c++ compiler profile as it is different from the c compiler profile.

Yes, especially if you don't know what you are doing and you don't have a acceptable test suite.

I hope that they all don't apply to us.

Hi Frediano,

Actually using Microsoft C++ compiler for C files is recommended because it performs

more excessive static checks and produces warnings regarding more potential problematic cases.

And this is definitely a good thing.

~Dmitry

Yes... C++ does more strictly checks. This does not means that all C programmers are moving to a C++ compiler!

The mspace.c file is shared between different projects where some require it to be C.

Rename to .cpp can cause maintainability issue as it's easier to introduce C++ construct that would lead to a fork.

As the initial rationale (a workaround for a VS bug) didn't apply anymore I would avoid the rename.

Frediano

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