At 08:58 AM 9/24/99 -0600, William F. Weiher III wrote:
>Another issue is the compiler for conduit programming. I greatly prefer
>Borland's C++ Builder for Win32 development, but I can't use for conduits
>because 3Com used Microsoft's string classes in the function calls instead
>of the standard C++ string class. An unthinking, arbitary, unnecessary
>decision that forces you to use the Microsoft C++ compiler.
I don't think it's simply an issue of string classes. Because of issues
like name mangling, vtable layout etc. it's generally true that C++
libraries can only be used from code built with an identical compiler. I
run into this in the CORBA world all the time.
Gilbert W. Pilz Jr.
Senior Consulting Engineer
SeaLion Software, Inc.
www.clion.com
