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Are you, by chance, looking at the RTI-s or RTI-ng codebase?
If you are, RTI is the namespace with a type RTIambassador in it. This line of code is initializing a static member variable in the class ObjectRoot called ms_rtiAmb to NULL. If you look in the ObjectRoot declaration, you should see a line that looks like the following somewhere:
static RTIambassador* ms_rtiAmb;
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I am actually looking at RTI-ng codebase.
Actually, there is no declaration anywhere saying static RTIambassador* ms_rtiAmb;
I still dont know why there are so many declarations in the ObjectRoot file like this:
ObjectRoot::ms_numInstances = 0;
Why do we declare variable ms_numInstances with ObjectRoot:: in front of it. Still unclear
Thanks for your help Zac,
Jay
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Jay03 wrote: Actually, there is no declaration anywhere saying static RTIambassador* ms_rtiAmb;
search for 'RTIambassador' .
Jay03 wrote: Why do we declare variable ms_numInstances with ObjectRoot:: in front of it.
because ms_numInstances lives inside a namespace or a class, and 'ObjectRoot::' tells the compiler where to look to find the variable.
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Ah, I don't have the ng codebase on me ... the RTI-s codebase shouldn't be too much different though (that is what we use where I work ... at least for now -- a new contract is coming that may require the use of ng).
Typically, anytime you see m_ in front of a variable name, it means it is a member variable. When you see ms_ it means it is a static member variable. To initialize static member variables, you have to place a line somewhere in the implementation (typically at the top of the .cpp file) that looks like the following:
VariableType ClassName::ms_VariableName = SomeValue;
The ObjectRoot:: in front of the ms_numInstances states that it is a member of the ObjectRoot class (it could also mean a namespace, but in this case, I happen to know it is a class).
Do a grep on the ObjectRoot declaration and you should see where those variables are declared (or, if you are using a decent IDE, click the variable and tell the IDE to go to the declaration). You should see them as static members of the ObjectRoot class in the RTI namespace.
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-- modified at 12:59 Thursday 22nd June, 2006
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Well explains what I wanted to know...........
Your help may be needed in the future Zac because Im working on an RTI project
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If you don't mind me asking, who do you work for and what SAF are you interfacing with?
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Zac
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Georgia Tech..... what is SAF..... what's ur msn
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SAF = Semiautomated Forces (military simulation). RTI-ng/RTI-s are used mainly to communicate using HLA (dumbest accronym ever!). Is GT doing some modelling/simulation research for the military?
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We're just messing around with the RTI source code to understand what is going on. Eventually will be an open source RTI
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Jay03 wrote: Eventually will be an open source RTI
So you'll be switching to RTI-s at some point?
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What's languaue that used for write Windows OS ?
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toxcct wrote: the answer is : C++ and Assembler...
Not to be too picky ... but it is actually C and ASM (for the most part). However, last I heard, Longhorn is suppose to be almost completely in C++.
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if you follow the link i provided, it seems that most accord to say C++...
for Vista, it seems to be a mix of C/C++/ASM for the native part, and Managed C++/C# for managed part...
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I know what most people think, but as you know yourself, many people on this forum don't really understand the difference between C and C++.
MSDN magazine had an article about a year ago that talked about how they were trying to write almost all of Longhorn (aka Vista) in Managed C++. I'm not sure if they have abandoned that and wrote portions of it in unmanged C++ (although, from a developer's perspective, I can see some likely areas of the OS where they would not only want to, but possibly might have to).
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toxcct wrote: if you follow the link i provided, it seems that most accord to say C++...
But are those folks in the lounge just guessing, or do they really know?
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you talk about this post[^] ? 
well, seriously, as the lounge is a general forum, there are true folks, but some (i think of Corinna John for instance, or perterchen or code-frog) are valuable programmers, and by then, there voice is full of sense...
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Well, lets look at it this way: Every single Win32 API is in pure C (see Jeffrey Ricther's book and Petzold's book for details).
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Zac Howland wrote: Not to be too picky ... but it is actually C and ASM (for the most part). However, last I heard, Longhorn is suppose to be almost completely in C++.
According to what some people from MS told me: it is C and ASM in the kernel, but most of user-space code (shell, etc) is C++.
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Nemanja Trifunovic wrote: but most of user-space code (shell, etc) is C++
Some of the GUI-shell is written in C++ using COM, but even some of that is written in pure C. The reasoning is that when the original design for Windows was being developed, C was the most common language for application development and they wanted to leverage that fact. It has remained that way to be compatible with both C and C++.
When you browse through MSDN looking at Win32 API documents (not MFC documents), you'll notice that there are no classes defined -- only structs defined in old-style C syntax. This is also why all window/threading/event API calls take a handle as the first paramter.
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Zac Howland wrote: When you browse through MSDN looking at Win32 API documents (not MFC documents), you'll notice that there are no classes defined -- only structs defined in old-style C syntax. This is also why all window/threading/event API calls take a handle as the first paramter.
That really shows nothing. It is easy to make a C interface to a C++ implementation.
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Nemanja Trifunovic wrote: That really shows nothing. It is easy to make a C interface to a C++ implementation.
Yes, because in 1997 when the Win2K OS was being designed, Microsoft had enough forethought to implement the OS in C++ (which hadn't even been standardized yet) and then took the extra time to wrap the entire OS with a pure C API ... and then provided yet another wrapper around the C API written in C++ (which is known as MFC).
As twisted as Microsoft can be sometimes, even that is a stretch.
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Zac Howland wrote: Yes, because in 1997 when the Win2K OS was being designed, Microsoft had enough forethought to implement the OS in C++ (which hadn't even been standardized yet) and then took the extra time to wrap the entire OS with a pure C API ... and then provided yet another wrapper around the C API written in C++ (which is known as MFC).
And yet, you are speculating here, and I have heard from people from Microsoft that more than 50% of Windows code is C++. Again, they may be lying 
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Nemanja Trifunovic wrote: Again, they may be lying
Doubtful that they are lying. It is more likely that they don't know the differences in the languages themselves. Read Petzold's original Programming for Windows book, followed by Programming Applications for Windows by Jeffery Richter (sp).
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There is no doubt in my mind that lots of the user mode code in written in C++; I have disassembled parts of many user mode DLLs when trying to fix various bugs and you can tell it's C++. For example MSHTML.dll is C++. When you read up on writing device drivers you'll find that Microsoft recommend that they be written in C. C and assembler in the kernel and a mix of C/C++ in the user mode would be true for the most part. Obviously with Vista you'll have to add managed languages to the mix for some user mode portions.
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