[linux-audio-dev] soft synth as a plugin

[Likai Liu]

STEFFL, ERIK (SBCSI) wrote:

>>erm, sorry, but why not use pointers
>>
>  it's dangerous... null pointers, memory leaks etc. tendency is not to use
>pointers unless absolutely neccessary...
>
References in C++ are just pointers in a sugared form. Actually they are 
the same thing in a slightly different syntax. There is no memory safety 
in C/C++, so you end up having the same risks no matter you use pointers 
or references. The difference of the performance probably lies in the 
fact that the compiler understands your code better with references, 
hence it can do better optimizations. My guess is that references are 
easier to optimize against because you don't do pointer arithmetics and 
pointer type-casting on references.

Stefan Nitschke wrote:

>> are different versions of gcc3 ABI - compatible?
>
> AFAIK all versions of gcc3 except version 3.0 which had a bug are 
> compatible.

Starting gcc 3.2, they changed the ABI again, so g++ 3.2 produces 
incompatible code with 3.1, 3.0, etc. I hope the gcc 3.2 ABI will remain 
stable ever after.

liulk