[fpc-devel] C++ linking questions

Dimitri Smits smitco at telenet.be
Mon Mar 22 16:42:13 CET 2010


Jonas Maebe wrote:
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>On 22 Mar 2010, at 11:19, Anton Kavalenka wrote:
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>> Don't UNITS in Pascal intended to separate NAMESPACES?
>> But unfortunately this prevents nested namespaces.
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>The discussion is not about adding support for C++-style namespaces to Pascal, but for how to specify the C++ namespace in which an (externally implemented) C++ class is defined (as this influences the name mangling).
>


Anton Kavalenka wrote in reply to that:
>I understand :)
>
>The most amazing thing will start later (during linking). In what order =
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>runtime initialization should be performed (first Pascal the C++ or vice =
>
>versa)?
>Obviously C++ object files has lots of references to C++ runtime so in =
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>best case we get exe file with 2 runtimes inside,
>in worst case we get crash on initialization.
>

it even gets worse than that. Is this even possible? WHAT C++ compiler-mangling are you going to support?

Every C++ compiler has its own mangling scheme, which individual versions of it can change at will as well.

GNU C++ on linux/whatever system? => changed mangling between versions
Borland/(open)Watcom/Digital Mars/Microsoft/... on Windows and some on other systems => same there.

there are some ABI's, but they do not contain name-mangling conventions. 

ps: sorry to mess up your thread. I'm using digest.

kind regards,
Dimitri Smits





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