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jcwray@ix.netcom.com (John Wray ) wrote:
>
>On many platforms, there is a de-facto calling standard that many 
>language processors can generate calls to, allowing libraries to be
>be implemented in one language, and called from others.  Often
>(although not always

   Indeed, MS-Windows uses "Pascal" calling conventions.

) this standard is the native "C" calling mechanism on the
>platform, but almost always it is possible to use C to create 
> libraries that obey the standard, such that they can be invoked 
>by languages other than C.  It would be really nice 
> if C++ could be used in the 
>same way, to produce language-neutral libraries.

>I was wondering if there's any likelihood of a fix for this situation
>getting into the standard?  

   Not the ISO Standard. No chance.

   There are however various industry standards for this,
such as IBM SOM and Sun ABI.

   The most ambitious is not really what you asked for but
something much better -- CORBA, which provides for network
based object access. 

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