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Re: Is there any software porting C++ to C?

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Day 01 Aug 2011 08:48:36 GMT, Juha Nieminen wrote:
>   For example, you can have templates that generate code conditionally
> depending on, for example, the size or limits of a basic type. If you
> mechanically translate this code to C you will be assuming that this
> size or the limits are something specific, and the generic nature of
> the code will be lost. This means that if you try to compile the same
> C code in a different environment where those sizes of limits are
> different (eg. 32-bit vs 64-bit), it probably won't work properly.

Well, I don't know.
Arent't there gnu autotools for preventing it?

Best regards,
Waldek

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  Re: Is there any software porting C++ to C? Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-08-01 19:42 +1200
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