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- From: robert@solan.unit.no (Robert Schmidt)
- Subject: Re: MFC under BCC?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.192354.6369@ugle.unit.no>
- Sender: news@ugle.unit.no (NetNews Administrator)
- Organization: Norwegian Institute of Technology
- References: <1992Aug05.012145.19837@microsoft.com> <1992Aug11.020925.18514@microsoft.com> <1992Aug13.211344.10040@odi.com> <1992Aug14.172301.3596@microsoft.com>
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 19:23:54 GMT
- Lines: 37
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- In article <1992Aug14.172301.3596@microsoft.com>, gregde@microsoft.com (Greg Demichillie) writes:
- > 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
-
- To finish this off: I checked out the Borland white paper on converting
- MFC to compile with BC. The changes are fairly extensive, in my opinion.
- Boy, do I wish diffs were standard under MSDOS.
-
- Does anyone have the diffs, BTW? I guess I have a diff port that should
- take'em.
-
-
- > --
- > Greg DeMichillie
- > gregde@microsoft.com -- All opinions are mine, not Microsoft's --
-
- --
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