Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Path: not-for-mail From: Shankar Unni Subject: Re: .dll question Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2002 18:10:14 -0700 Lines: 15 Message-ID: <3D9B98F6.3040003@cotagesoft.com> References: <3D9B1B11.16005.3D0BDC@localhost> <1033600781.14524.221.camel@lifelesswks> NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-64-165-207-58.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1033607502 11011 64.165.207.58 (3 Oct 2002 01:11:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 01:11:42 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 (Compact) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en On 10/2/2002 4:19 PM, Robert Collins wrote: > No it can't. In general, C++ compilers don't interoperate. The C++-Lite > FAQ has a section on this. > From memory, the issues are: > *VMT layout > [..] And before someone jumps up and asks why this can't be reverse engineered - apart from the general difficulty of the task, there are even potential patent issues, as Microsoft claims to have patented some clever VMT layout and optimization algorithms that they use for VC++. It's unclear whether another compiler can use the same algorithm (to match VC++) without running afoul of these patents.. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/