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From: davidbro@microsoft.UUCP (Dave BROWN)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Lattice C++
Message-ID: <72373@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 15 May 91 21:54:45 GMT
References: <1474@loki.une.oz.au> <38576@ditka.Chicago.COM>
Reply-To: davidbro@microsoft.UUCP (Dave BROWN)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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In article <38576@ditka.Chicago.COM> comeau@csanta.attmail.com (Greg Comeau) writes:
>I'm not versed enough in AmigaDOS specific, however what I can tell you
>is that compiler supporting either the 2.0 or 2.1 spec of C++ have
>something called 'extern "C"' syntax which allows you an interface to
>C.  Under some, for instance, Comeau C++, we literally pick up your C
>compilers include files.  Hence, the call in C++ would be *EXACTLY* the
>same as it would be in C.

Just to pick nits, this is true unless the AmigaDOS or Intuition function
name is the same name as a method in a current class definition, in which case
the name would be prepended with :: .

No big deal, it's just that I ran into it the other day when I was creating
a List class that utilizes Exec's list handling functions.

>- Greg

dave

p.s. to greg:  I am the david brown you had been playing phone tag with
the other week.  The problem I was having was due to my forgetting to
set the stack to the correct size...


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