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Article #272Re: Will Java kill C++?
From: Ian Johnston (by ubsswop)
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 07:53
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 07:53
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In article <4ku4lk$lg6@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM>, linden@positive.Sun.COM (Peter van der Linden) writes: |> >How would you have maintained C-style linkage and C++ typesafe |> >linkage in the same object module without changing the linker? |> |> By writing a linker pre-pass program which checks for and enforces |> the type-safe linking rules. Yep, this is the obvious answer, but not terribly practical when trying to get a system up and running on multiple platforms. If only Sun would write a linker pre-pass for templates, we could dump the template repository junk which makes linking with C++ libraries using templates nigh on impossible. And Sun would only have to do it for one platform. The PC compilers do this *so* much better. Ian
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!svnews.ubinet.ubs.com!ubszh!ian.johnston@ubs.com From: ian.johnston@ubs.com (Ian Johnston (by ubsswop)) Newsgroups: comp.lang.java,comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: Will Java kill C++? Date: 16 Apr 1996 07:53:33 GMT Organization: UBS Distribution: world Message-ID: <4kvjlt$ue@ubszh.fh.zh.ubs.com> References: <4kn3c4$1ggc@piglet.cc.uic.edu> <DpvsE5.2HC@research.att.com> <4ksfdr$bhh@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM> <3172DC7C.6B3F@sdt.com> <4ku4lk$lg6@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM> NNTP-Posting-Host: nol2179.fh.zh.ubs.com