Re: MFC under BCC?

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From: Greg Demichillie
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 17:23

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In article <1992Aug13.211344.10040@odi.com> ed@odi.com (Ed Schwalenberg) writes:
>In article <1992Aug11.020925.18514@microsoft.com> johnkal@microsoft.com (John Kallen) writes:
>
> With luck, a standard DOS/Win/OS-2 name-mangling will evolve. Until
> then, one will have to have sources to libraries, or compiler-vendor-dependent
> .LIB files (bleargh...)
>
>Let's assume that a standard name-mangling exists.  You're still in the soup
>unless object layout (alignment rules, location of vptrs, size of vtbls, etc)
>is identical and calling conventions are identical.

The fact the different vendors use different name mangling schemes is a
good thing precisely because of the point you make.  If we all had the
same mangling you would get strange run-time behavior instead of
link errors.  

-Greg

-- 
Greg DeMichillie          
gregde@microsoft.com      -- All opinions are mine, not Microsoft's --

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