Re: Instantiating and calling a class contained in a DLL

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From: Andrue Cope [TeamB]
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 15:19

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Bruce Salzman wrote:

> If you don't need portability between compilers, then that is a 
> non-issue.

That's what my post says - or at least it's a warning about possible
consequences of exporting classes which is much the same thing.

One of the main purposes of DLLs is to provide cross language support
so that anyone can call someone elses code without needing to use the
same compiler or even the same language. Exporting classes from a DLL
risks negating this feature and thus severely limits the potential
usefulness of a DLL.

Given that nothing in the OPs post indicated they were writing solely
for one compiler it seemed prudent to warn them of the downsides of
using this technique.

-- 
Andrue Cope [TeamB]
[Bicester, Uk]
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