Re: Multi language programming

guerin@IRO.UMontreal.CA (Frederic Guerin)
Fri, 17 Nov 1995 04:35:44 GMT

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From: guerin@IRO.UMontreal.CA (Frederic Guerin)
Keywords: linker
Organization: Universite de Montreal
References: 95-11-044 95-11-108
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 1995 04:35:44 GMT

Alex Martelli (martelli@cadlab.it) wrote:


Thanks Alex for the info about FORTRAN intraplatform incompatibilities.


: I would suggest named "attribute sets" allowing machine-specific
: and compiler-specific descriptions of name mangling, parameter
: passing conventions, etc. Look at the WATCOM C compilers that


What about language defined name-mangling ?


I know Stroustrup rejected it for C++, but I wonder why.


Can it be supposed that every linker provide a separator character
ie not in [_0-9A-Za-z] for naming ? This way attributed names could
be easily constructed.


Of course there is still the name lenght limit :-(


Any info out there about this issue.


Frederic
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