Mathias Broxvall <mbr### [at] swipnetseNOSPAM> wrote in article
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> Philippe Houdoin <phi### [at] ouest-francefr> wrote:
> 
> > Perhaps a welcomed next major version (4.0?) rewritten code will help
this
> > particular point.
> 
> Another small problem is that (I read somewhere) povray version 4.0 will
> be written in C++ which makes it a little bit more difficult to make
> sharedlibraries of it on some plattforms. The reason for this is that
> there is no widely addopted standard for how the name mangling should
> be performed. Ie my MrC compiler and my Codewarrior compiler creates
> different symbols (for the linker) for the same function. I would expect
> this to be a problem also on other plattforms. Am I right?
> I know that this is easy to overcome (Mix C and C++), but in a portable
> way?
> 

	Yeah, it easy, you just write the public interfaces in C, rather than C++,
then name mangling doesn't matter as all the mangled names are kept within
the library.

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