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Article #148Re: Will Java kill C++?
From: Matt Austern
Date: Mon, 08 Apr 1996 19:35
Date: Mon, 08 Apr 1996 19:35
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In article <31683229.446B9B3D@bbn.com> Joe Kraska <jkraska@bbn.com> writes: > ANSI-C libraries are much easier to handle than C++ > libraries, for a whole host of reasons, not the least of which is > the stupid-dumb-fuck-mistake of not having a name-mangling standard > for C++. Are you under the impression that there's a guarantee somewhere that you can take two files, compile them using two different C compilers, and successfully link them together? There is no such guarantee---neither in C nor in C++. You can do this if and only if the vendors who supplied the compilers conform to the same ABI. Standard ABIs for C exist on some platforms, and ABIs for C++ are being developed. -- Matt Austern SGI: MTI Compilers Group austern@isolde.mti.sgi.com
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!fido.asd.sgi.com!news From: austern@isolde.mti.sgi.com (Matt Austern) Newsgroups: comp.lang.java,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk Subject: Re: Will Java kill C++? Date: 08 Apr 1996 19:35:41 GMT Organization: SGI Message-ID: <AUSTERN.96Apr8123541@isolde.mti.sgi.com> References: <315BFB16.B74@isg.de> <4jgv6t$hon@kadath.zeitgeist.net> <4k3cdo$np5@taurus.adnc.com> <DpG1s1.GC9@research.att.com> <4k7akk$nsh@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM> <31683229.446B9B3D@bbn.com> Reply-To: austern@mti.sgi.com NNTP-Posting-Host: isolde.mti.sgi.com In-reply-to: Joe Kraska's message of Sun, 07 Apr 1996 14:22:49 -0700