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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote in message 
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> On 2017-08-10 16:43, Lucretia wrote:
>
>> 10) Standardised C++ binding, what the compiler does underneath
>> shouldn't matter as long as the interface specifying the binding is
>> consistent and has a way to add platform specific changes, i.e. DLL
>> binding for Windows, standard binding for other OSes.
>
> Is that even possible? I used to make a C++ library (with some templates) 
> compilable by both Borland C++ and Visual Studio C++. That was fun!

The ARG tried to think about this once. And the result was to change the 
existing B.3's title and introduction to include "C++" -- to make it clear 
that these facilities are useful for interfacing to C++ as well. We didn't 
think it made sense in any way to try to do more (massive complexity both 
for the implementation and for the user). As always, we considered that we 
might standardize something vendors came up with, but they didn't come up 
with anything suitable. Has anything changed?

                                               Randy.