Linker Problem

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Jun 26, 2001, "DiFrango, Ron" <ron.difrango@capitalone.com> wrote:

> can I some how tell the linker to map from the GCC
> mangled name to the one that is actually in the library?

Nope.  Before the multi-vendor C++ ABI started being defined, each C++
compiler vendor chose its own name mangling scheme, which was good,
because each compiler also used different layouts for object types,
different virtual-method dispatching mechanisms, different encodings
for pointers to methods, etc, etc.  So the different name mangling
would prevent you from shooting your own foot :-)

Unfortunately, this new C++ ABI hasn't been adopted by many compilers
yet.  If the library you have has already been compiled by a compiler
that doesn't follow that ABI, there's little hope of getting it to
work with GCC.

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