[x264-devel] Re: x264 for g++ compiler on r239

[Stephen Henry]

I would, personally like to see this as well since I am planning to use
x264 in a SystemC (C++ library for SOC) type environment. I'm not
suggesting that development should switch to C++ all of a sudden (OOP
and all...), but I would like to see the default x264 branch able to
compile under both gcc and g++ without modification. When I've done this
in the past, the only differences required was slight modifications to
some casts (which gcc allows, because the C-language is less pedantic
about such things) and none of #define statements in the code that was
suggested. This has generally resulted in much tighter code as sometimes
GCC was allowing casts from, say unsigned to signed, or other such
things without creating a warning. 

I do think that rewriting x264 in C++ would be really nice, but I don't
see the benefit from doing so: the code is already really well
structured, and the task of converting everything to classes would be,
IMHO, redundant.

Regards,

Stephen 

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:x264-devel-bounce at videolan.org] On Behalf Of Loren Merritt
Sent: 25 May 2005 03:56
To: x264-devel at videolan.org
Subject: [x264-devel] Re: x264 for g++ compiler on r239

On Wed, 25 May 2005, champ yen wrote:

>    Recently, I started my personal hobby project "x264++" to create a
> C++ H.264 Codec based on x264. First, I modified x264 r239 for g++
> compilation. In the future, I will write c++ classes to replace each
> part of x264 C code. If anyone want to test it, it could be downloaded
> from:
>
> http://www.ccns.ncku.edu.tw/~champ/x264_239_g++.tgz
>
> I hope that offcial x264 would adopt this modification. BTW, It could
> still be compiled by gcc, too. Simply change the line of CC="g++" to
> CC="gcc" in the  'configure' file. Remeber to execute configure first
> before you make...^^

Why?!
I mean, feel free to port x264 to whatever language you want, but my 
version is and will remain a C program. I won't clutter the code with 
ifdefs or unnecessary casts just to make g++ happy.

--Loren Merritt

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