[fpc-devel] Re: PDF on C/C++ code in Free Pascal

[Jonas Maebe]

On 16 Sep 2009, at 20:09, Sven Barth wrote:

> Jonas Maebe schrieb:
>> As far as I know, there is not a single test for this  
>> functionality, so I'm not sure that it actually works.
>
> Well... then I think it's time to change this.
>
> I'll try to test this functionality (and to fix it, if it fails),

Thanks!

> but you  (or another core developer) should at least tell me how  
> that feature is supposed to work and (equally important) be used.

Frankly, I don't really know. I only discovered this by chance while  
working on the Objective-C support. As far as I could tell, you simply  
have to use "cppclass" rather than "class", and that's it (the cppdecl  
name mangling style is automatically applied to all methods  
afterwards, if I remember correctly). I don't think that field  
accesses can work at all though, nor calling virtual methods (let  
alone defining multiple inheritance hierarchies). The only thing that  
really seemed to be implemented was C++ name mangling.


Jonas