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From: Darren C Davenport <ddavenpo@redwood.dn.hac.com>
Subject: Re: Interface between ADA and C++
Date: 1996/05/24
Date: 1996-05-24T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4o4h0p$l32@hacgate2.hac.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 31A51616.3222EAAC@str.com


Mike Young <mikey@str.com> wrote:
>As for guessing and using the decorated name: this is generally not a good
>idea. It's a pain in the behind, for one, not portable, for two, and extern
>C takes care of all this, for three.
>
>Mike.

However, GNAT does have the ability to interface with C++, including 
deriving classes, and you can not use that capability if you use extern.
You do need to know the mangled name to use this feature.

Darren





  reply	other threads:[~1996-05-24  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1996-05-22  0:00 Interface between ADA and C++ Norbert Roeben
1996-05-23  0:00 ` Kevin F. Quinn
1996-05-23  0:00   ` Mike Young
1996-05-24  0:00     ` Darren C Davenport [this message]
1996-05-29  0:00       ` Ken Slater
1996-05-29  0:00         ` Ding-yuan Sheu
1996-05-24  0:00 ` Vincent P. Amiot
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