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diff --git a/src/core/lib/gprpp/README.md b/src/core/lib/gprpp/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..eab018bb31 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/core/lib/gprpp/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +# GPR++ - Google Portable Runtime for C++ + +The files in this directory contain various utility code for C++ code. +None of this code is gRPC-specific; anything here may also be useful +for other open source projects written in C++. + +Note that this is one of the few places in src/core where we allow +the use of portability macros. + +Note that this is the only place in src/core where we allow +use of the C++ standard library (i.e., anything in the `std::` +namespace). And for now, we require that any use of the +standard library is build-time-only -- i.e., we do not allow +run-time dependencies on libstdc++. For more details, see +[gRFC L6](/grpc/proposal/blob/master/L6-allow-c%2B%2B-in-grpc-core.md) and +[Moving gRPC core to C++](/grpc/grpc/blob/master/doc/core/moving-to-c%2B%2B.md). |