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Comment on Porting upb to C++? by Alejandro M.

Posted: December 1st, 2009, 10:59am MST by Alejandro M.

assuming the generated C code is good, why not? thanks!
Comment on Porting upb to C++? by Josh

Posted: December 1st, 2009, 10:55am MST by Josh

@Alejandro: Wow, I didn’t realize there was already someone wanting to use upb on an embedded platform! I definitely want to keep supporting your use case if I can. I think the best way forward will be for me to get a C++ to C translator like Comeau C++. Then I can keep writing in C++, but ship C files that you can build with a plain C compiler. Do you think that will work for you?
Comment on Porting upb to C++? by Alejandro M.

Posted: December 1st, 2009, 10:02am MST by Alejandro M.

@Josh: Hi! You mentioned my reason… I work on a CXX-free embedded controller. Moving from ASN.1 to protocol buffer at IPC (hate threads) level thanks to your awesome upb and I was starting to write the Lua bindings to finish the migration integrating the http front-end and some Lua based helpers running inside the controller. So porting ucb to C++ because will hit me… badly … your implementation is great!. I understand porting it to C++ will save you some lines… but maybe some refactoring can help to reduce the complexity without having to switch to C++? you can do all the bindings you aim keeping it in C… with all it’s current benefits
Comment on Porting upb to C++? by Josh

Posted: December 1st, 2009, 9:30am MST by Josh

@Alejandro: If you want to influence my decision, you should tell me why you don’t want me to. I definitely have resisted, but practical reasons are demanding that I do. But maybe you are thinking of practical reasons that I’m missing.
Comment on Porting upb to C++? by Alejandro M.

Posted: December 1st, 2009, 7:49am MST by Alejandro M.

please don’t :’(