Using GCC proprietary constructs - a good idea?

[Phil Dawes <philipd parallax co uk>]

Elliot Lee wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Lauri Alanko wrote:
> 
> > > That's another approach I hadn't considered. What I was planning to do was
> > > something like:
> > >
> > > gulong D__id = -1;
> > > void D_class_init(void) __attributes__ ((constructor));
> >
> > Huh? I thought ORBit was supposed to be written in C.
> 
> I already asked if anyone minded requiring gcc, nobody said anything. I
> guess people with Visual C/C++ will just have to use another ORB. *sob* :)

Is this a good idea? What about other free software projects requiring a
corba orb which don't want to require gcc?

Will this create linkage problems for other languages that expect ANSI-C
based stubs (I don't know - I'm asking)?

Doesn't this decision force Gnome to be GCC-only as well?


Cheers,

Phil.


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