DRAFT document on coding conventions in kde libraries

[Thiago Macieira]

Dirk Mueller wrote:
>I don't think its that easy. Maybe with gcc < 4.0 it was that easy.
> However, with newer compilers, its more or less impossible to get
> dynamic_cast working accross DSO's unless all of them are loaded with
> global symbol resolution.

Hmm? That's news to me. Can you point to a case where this is going awry?

I thought that the only important thing is to have the typeinfo 
well-placed (non-weak). That, in turn, means the class with virtuals must 
have at least one non-inline virtual method. (preferrably the 
destructor).

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3. Ac seo woruld wearð geborod, swá se Scieppend cwæð "Gewurde Unix" and 
wundor fremede and him "Unix" genemned, þæt is se rihtendgesamnung.
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