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Matt Austern (austern@isolde.mti.sgi.com) wrote:
: In article <4ks0c8$jte@piglet.cc.uic.edu> dhanle2@icarus.cc.uic.edu (David James Hanley) writes:

: > : Correct about what?  That having a name-mangling standard for C++
: > : would make C++ libraries easier to handle.  Sorry, but he's wrong,
: > : and so are you.
: > 
: > 	Nope. You're the one who is wrong here.  But seeing as you
: > replied to my first post about the matter with insults to me, I really
: > doubt you are interested in serious exploration of the matter.  

: I'd think twice before telling Andy flatly that he's wrong about some
: basic C++ issue.

	I'm not calling him wrong on a C++ issue per se.  WHere I do think
he's wrong is in the area of basic logic.  Everyone who's familiar with
compilers knows it's hard to link objects gernerated by different 
compilers.  Where I think he's wrong is in the logical(?) progression:
"It might be hard to do, so let's make it harder."  My thought process
on the matter runs more like:  "It's hard to do, so why the hell should
we make it harder?  That's silly."

: There are a whole lot
: of issues to be resolved if you want to link object files from two
: compilers: sizes of basic types, direction of stack growth,
: representation of the number of arguments passed to a subroutine,
: order in which arguments are passed, mechanism for return types,
: padding of data structures,

	All the above could easily be inhereted from the C abi's for
the same platform that already exist.

: mechanism for polymorphic function calls,

	Probably the only hard one.

: initialization of global data, layout of derived classes (especially
: in the case of multiple and/or virtual inheritance), representation of
: object type,

	Yes, these would have to be resolved.  But none of them are
particularly hard to do.

: mechanism for linking to dynamic shared libraries,

	Already in the C abi..

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