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Sorry, Just my sour grapes. Recently created a third party SDK DLL in c++ and could not pass c++ types natively (unless you coupled to compiler and maybe versi
by rileymat2 9y ago
Sorry, Just my sour grapes.
Recently created a third party SDK DLL in c++ and could not pass c++ types natively (unless you coupled to compiler and maybe version of compiler).
- gmueckl 9y agoThis is C++ on Windows for you. On Linux, most compilers follow the ABI that GCC created, which has become very stable. I actually cannot name a C++ compiler that doesn't follow that ABI.
- cesarb 9y agoActually, Linux nowadays uses the Itanium C++ ABI (even on non-IA64 architectures), and AFAIK it was created by Intel, not GCC.
- gmueckl 9y agoI stand corrected. Indeed, the Itanium ABI defined by Intel is the base. The important part is that it is used by most, if not all, C++ compilers on that platform.
- pjmlp 9y agoWhich is why any Windows developer that wants to export OO libraries uses COM instead, with the benefit that any Windows compiler that can speak COM is able to use the library. UWP now even supports generics and actual inheritance.