[linux-audio-dev] [ot] [rant] gcc, you let me down one time too many

[Tim Goetze]

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

> Tim Goetze wrote:
>
>> Enter gcc version 3, moving the vtable member to memory offset 0 of a
>> derived type even if the base type is in C which doesn't know about
>> vtables.
>
> Relying on undefined behaviour will, sooner or later, result in tears.

To be honest, I don't know if it's undefined behaviour; I don't read 
ISO compiler ABI standards (if they exist in the first place). I was 
simply trusting that common sense would always allow this 
cross-language subclassing, apparently I was wrong.

> Can I sell you an Ocaml:
>
>    http://www.ocaml.org/

Does it give me inline assembly, realtime-safeness and the performance 
of C/C++? I'm quite fond of C in both incarnations, and paired with 
Python it's quite a dream team that is hard to surpass, or 
alternatively fit into.

Browsing the site, the tutorial shows code lines ending with two 
semicola and assignments using a 'let' operator; first bitter pills 
to swallow for a friend of code brevity to be sure.

It does look like it has its sweet spots after some more tutorial 
browsing, however I'm afraid my ideal it is not.

Cheers, Tim