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- From: austern@isolde.mti.sgi.com (Matt Austern)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.java,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk
- Subject: Re: Will Java kill C++?
- Date: 08 Apr 1996 19:35:41 GMT
- Organization: SGI
- Message-ID: <AUSTERN.96Apr8123541@isolde.mti.sgi.com>
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- In-reply-to: Joe Kraska's message of Sun, 07 Apr 1996 14:22:49 -0700
-
- In article <31683229.446B9B3D@bbn.com> Joe Kraska <jkraska@bbn.com> writes:
-
- > ANSI-C libraries are much easier to handle than C++
- > libraries, for a whole host of reasons, not the least of which is
- > the stupid-dumb-fuck-mistake of not having a name-mangling standard
- > for C++.
-
- Are you under the impression that there's a guarantee somewhere that
- you can take two files, compile them using two different C compilers,
- and successfully link them together?
-
- There is no such guarantee---neither in C nor in C++. You can do this
- if and only if the vendors who supplied the compilers conform to the
- same ABI. Standard ABIs for C exist on some platforms, and ABIs for
- C++ are being developed.
- --
- Matt Austern
- SGI: MTI Compilers Group
- austern@isolde.mti.sgi.com
-