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- From: tmb@arolla.idiap.ch (Thomas M. Breuel)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: How to hack c++ into doing late binding ?
- Message-ID: <TMB.92Aug31191017@arolla.idiap.ch>
- Date: 31 Aug 92 23:10:17 GMT
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- <1992Aug13.151003.15231@ucc.su.OZ.AU>
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- In-reply-to: maxtal@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU's message of 13 Aug 92 15:10:03 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug13.151003.15231@ucc.su.OZ.AU> maxtal@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (John MAX Skaller) writes:
-
- C++ has no run-time system (except for new/delete).
- Instead it relys on the operating system.
- What you need to do 'dynamic linkage' is a decent operating system.
- Windows and OS/2 do exactly what you want. I do it, it
- works superbly. So your problem is that Unix is a brain dead
- operating system :-)
-
- Actually, many versions of UNIX support dynamic linking, and there are
- even two libraries that are portable to multiple machines and versions
- of UNIX.
-
- It's easy to claim to "standardize" lots of features (Windows, OS/2)
- if you only have one system running on only one hardware platform...
-
- Thomas.
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