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From: Hyman Rosen <hymie@prolifics.com>
Subject: Re: Ada vs. C/C++ (was re: bitwise something-or-other)
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Mark Lundquist <mark@rational.com> writes:
> For instance, C++ has its VPTR/VTABLE crap

You probably know this, but just for the record, the vptr/vtable technique
is part of an implementation to handle virtual method dispatching, and is
not defined within C++ itself. Ada dispatching is done in exactly the same
way. Indeed, I believe GNAT makes Ada tagged records compatible with
corresponding C++ classes so that pointers to such objects may be exchanged
between the two languages.