Re: [cairo] Re: Notes on cairo/win32

[MenTaLguY <mental rydia net>]

On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Owen Taylor wrote:

> I have some belief that a C++ class is required to have the same
> in-memory layout as a C structure with the same members in the same
> order.

That's true to a limited extent; virtual methods, members in different
access levels or virtual inheritance can screw things up[1].

So far as I know none of those would be a problem for Rect though.

-mental

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[1] http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/mixing-c-and-cpp.html#faq-32.9