Re: Thanks for your reply Bruce

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Subject: Re: Thanks for your reply Bruce
From: bseiler@cadence.com (Bruce Seiler)
Date: Sun, 7 May 2000 09:15:02 -0400 (EDT)
Organization: Cadence Design System, Inc.
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Rob Myers <robm@tdv.com> wrote:
> As other posters have already pointed out, C++ interoperability is a real
> minefiled for any language. Different C++ compilers, ANSI or not, cannot
> talk to each other without an object model shim. The name mangling and
> vTables are different.

It's even worse than that.  The above can be avoided if you wrap all
method calls with a c wrapper function.  However you still can"t link
because every C++ implementation has a run time system to support new,
exceptions, streams, and so on.  These differ so on Solaris, code
compiled with  gcc, Sparcworks 4.2, and Sparcworks 5.0 can not be
mingled.

Bruce Seiler
bseiler@cadence.com

References:

[ANN] First alpha release of d2c CodeWarrior plugin available

From: "Gabor Greif" <gabor@mac.com>

Re: [ANN] First alpha release of d2c CodeWarrior plugin available

From: "Shawn" <shawn@anarchy-arts.com>

Re: [ANN] First alpha release of d2c CodeWarrior plugin available

From: brucehoult@pobox.com (Bruce Hoult)

Thanks for your reply Bruce

From: "Shawn" <shawn@anarchy-arts.com>

Re: Thanks for your reply Bruce

From: Rob Myers <robm@tdv.com>