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- From: gregde@microsoft.com (Greg Demichillie)
- Subject: Re: MFC under BCC?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.172301.3596@microsoft.com>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 17:23:01 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <1992Aug05.012145.19837@microsoft.com> <1992Aug11.020925.18514@microsoft.com> <1992Aug13.211344.10040@odi.com>
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- In article <1992Aug13.211344.10040@odi.com> ed@odi.com (Ed Schwalenberg) writes:
- >In article <1992Aug11.020925.18514@microsoft.com> johnkal@microsoft.com (John Kallen) writes:
- >
- > 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.
-
- The fact the different vendors use different name mangling schemes is a
- good thing precisely because of the point you make. If we all had the
- same mangling you would get strange run-time behavior instead of
- link errors.
-
- -Greg
-
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- Greg DeMichillie
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