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clamage@Eng.Sun.COM (Steve Clamage) writes:

>Now things get stickier. It's fine for you to say "name encoding scheme"
>and "calling conventions". But the standard would have to define what
>that means.
[...]
>We cannot solve all problems with a language standard.

Agreed, specifying ABIs and "name encoding schemes" is far beyond the
scope of the C++ standard.  But defining the behaviour of the following
C++ program certainly is.

void foo(void (*func)()) { (*func)(); }
void bar() {}
extern "C" void baz() {}

int main() {
foo(bar);
foo(baz);
return 0;
}

Should it be the same as `int main() { return 0; }', or should
it have undefined behaviour?  That is the unresolved issue.

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