Re: name mangling

From:
James Kanze <james.kanze@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Wed, 5 Nov 2008 04:38:20 -0800 (PST)
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On Nov 4, 10:01 am, "Megalo" <m...@z.x> wrote:

"James Kanze" <james.ka...@gmail.com> ha scritto nel messaggio
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On Nov 3, 2:41 pm, "Megalo" <m...@z.x> wrote:

"Pawel Dziepak" <pdzie...@quarnos.org> ha scritto nel
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extern "C" int function();

better
extern "C++" int function();

That's the default.

because extern "C" has already the meaning for "C function"

I think his point was that almost all other langauges have the
capability to call a C function, so if you make your C++
function look like a C function, they can call it.


so you think that a
C++ [class] function in a .dll file
could have a name usable of a C language?


Who cares about the name? Obviously, another language cannot
call a C++ member function unless it also knows how the C++
compiler implements classes, etc.

i would say their name should be the argument size they have,
its individual size the way of call that function (stdcall
ccall etc)


Why? Once you've said `extern "C"', you've told the compiler
all it needs to know.

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