Re: Marketing Ada: Is the Sky Falling?

[marcoxa@mosaic.nyu.edu (Marco Antoniotti)]

In article <3cnksb$6vn@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:

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   From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
   Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.lisp
   Date: 14 Dec 1994 15:34:19 -0500
   Organization: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
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   I don't see the different mangling schemes as a significant problem for
   Ada binding to C++, yes it is a problem, but relatively minor.

I might be paranoid, but I think it is a minor problem as long as we
remain in relatively friendly environments as G++ (considered that the
coordinator is here at NYU :) ).

Since the major vendors (i.e. Borland and Microsoft) tend to ship
their system complete with new libraries etc. etc. They could in
principle change the mangling scheme in each release.

This may turn out to be a headache.

On top of that, some major vendors may even be tempted not to reveal
their mangling scheme (in order to prevent linkage by other vendors)
or to even patent their specific name mangling scheme (this is even
more paranoid, but conceivable).

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