Massive, legacy codebase, C wrappers around new C++ functionality... to be honest I don't remember the exact reason. It mostly had to do with concurrency primit

Massive, legacy codebase, C wrappers around new C++ functionality... to be honest I don't remember the exact reason. It mostly had to do with concurrency primitives not being initialized when they needed to be due to a lack of a way to initialize a class instance the same way POD instances are initialized (aka int x = 0 in global scope.) You work with what you're given, sometimes! ;)