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From: ekrell@hector.UUCP (Eduardo Krell)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: C --> C++
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Date: 16 Apr 89 02:04:48 GMT
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In article <6590096@hplsla.HP.COM> jima@hplsla.HP.COM (Jim Adcock) writes:
>Can you
>do a extern "C" like construct that goes the other
>way? 

You should have added "in a portable way"...
Since C++ doesn't have a standard naming convention for generating
unique names for the loader, each compiler does its own name mangling.
The result is that you even can't link together .o's generated by
different C++ compilers (or even different versions of the same
compiler, if there was a change in the name mangling scheme between
the two versions).

    
Eduardo Krell                   AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ

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