On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 6:53 PM, L. David Baron <dba...@dbaron.org> wrote: > On Wednesday 2018-03-14 09:55 +0200, Henri Sivonen wrote: >> Is it still useful that >> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/C%2B%2B_Portability_Guide >> exists as a document that's separate from >> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Using_CXX_in_Mozilla_code >> ? There is some duplication. When the two disagree, the latter seems >> to be right. The former also contains stuff that predate our move away >> from NSPR integers and says not to use initializer lists because of >> HP-UX! >> >> Should we >> a) update >> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/C%2B%2B_Portability_Guide >> or >> b) merge the still-valid parts of >> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/C%2B%2B_Portability_Guide >> into >> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Using_CXX_in_Mozilla_code >> and add a redirect >> ? >> >> Option b seems more useful to me. > > (b) sounds like the right thing to do.
I merged these. > However, the first document also talks about some things that are > now technically possible but have disadvantages (e.g., in codesize > or performance), so those may belong in a new section of the second > document that talks about disadvantages of using some of these > features. (They're not necessarily clearly identified as such in > the first document, either, since it was written when they were not > portable.) I fixed some obviously out-of-date or redundant bits and felt confident to add language specifically against std::wstring, but otherwise I avoided making substantive changes on my own. -- Henri Sivonen hsivo...@hsivonen.fi https://hsivonen.fi/ _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
