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C vs C++ (Objective-C vs Objective-C++) for iPhone

Asked 2009-11-14T18:10:23.250
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I would like to create a portable library for iPhone, that also could be used for other platforms.

My question is the fallowing:

Does anyone knows what is the best to be used on the iPhone: Objective-C or Objective-C++? Does it works with C++ the same way as Objective-C with C or not?

Reasons: Objective-C is a superset of C, but Objective-C++ is not a superset of C++.

Thanks in advance!

UPDATE: What about memory usage, speed in the same implementation of an use case?

c++ iphone c objective-c objective-c++
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If you are going to use this library on platforms other than the iPhone and Mac OS, you should use C++. If you plan only to port it to Mac OS, then go ahead and use Objective-C. Objective-C++ is just a way to integrate existing C++ code into Objective-C projects. Thus, you would not write a library in it. You might, however, use Objective-C++ to use this library from an iPhone or Mac project.

answered 2009-11-14T18:22:33.523

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