Re: capture command output

[Russell Standish]

On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 06:56:17PM -0500, Paul Kienzle wrote:
> 
> PS, Is there any way to override 'private'?  E.g.,
> by having your own copy of the header files with the word
> private replace by public whereever it occurs?  Or does the
> C++ ABI do something special when storing privates?
> 

As far as I'm aware, there is no distinction at the binary level
between private & public vars - it is advice to the compiler only.

The proper way to do this is to insert a "friend" declaration within
a rewritten  class definition for which you need to access private
variables. That way, the compiler can still catch incorrect usage in
other parts of the code. I rely on this with my classdesc package -
and you can borrow the "insert-friend" utility from that package if
you need to rewrite a lot of code.

                                                Cheers

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