----- "Michael Schnell" <mschn...@lumino.de> schreef:

> On 10/20/2010 02:04 AM, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
> >
> > I would like to see my C parser working as an FPC front-end,
> 
> I feel that there in fact is a decent cause for doing a C(++)
> front-end 
> for the FPC compiler: importing existing C++ code into a Pascal
> project. 
> I suppose this is not possible completely without modifying the C++
> code 
> this will not be possible in many cases (please don't start discussing
> 
> multiple inheritance ;-) ), but this would be a lot better than the 
> current situation where linking FPC and C++ is completely impossible
> due 
> to the different ABI.
> 

and let's not forget the other argument "Delphi does it too" :-)))))))))

just kidding, different compiler is invoked

as for the linking of C++/FPC:
good argument, but then your fpc-compiled c++ will be incompatible with 
everything else. Come to think of it, no 2 C++ compilers mangle the same due to 
VMT and other abi-stuff anyway.

kind regards,
Dimitri Smits
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