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- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
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- From: ed@odi.com (Ed Schwalenberg)
- Subject: Re: MFC under BCC?
- In-Reply-To: johnkal@microsoft.com's message of 11 Aug 92 02:09:25 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.211344.10040@odi.com>
- Organization: Object Design, Inc.
- References: <59800002@otter.hpl.hp.com> <1992Aug05.012145.19837@microsoft.com> <1992Aug11.020925.18514@microsoft.com>
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 21:13:44 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug11.020925.18514@microsoft.com> johnkal@microsoft.com (John Kallen) writes:
-
- Borland and Microsoft have chosen two different name-mangling schemes for
- symbols. As you mention, this is unfortunate as it makes linking to .LIB
- libraries (as opposed to libraries where the source is provided) impossible
- if the library was built with the "wrong" version.
-
- With luck, a standard DOS/Win/OS-2 name-mangling will evolve. Until
- then, one will have to have sources to libraries, or compiler-vendor-dependent
- .LIB files (bleargh...)
-
- Let's assume that a standard name-mangling exists. You're still in the soup
- unless object layout (alignment rules, location of vptrs, size of vtbls, etc)
- is identical and calling conventions are identical.
-