RE: [boost] plain pointers and shared_ptr

From: Jeff Garland (jeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-03-26 12:07:20

> Playing devils advocate, it doesn't always work beautifully.  The biggest
> problem occurs when the libraries produced must be usable by other compilers
> or even other languages.  The name mangling done by your C++ compiler can
> prevent the DLL from being used by other C++ compilers or by other languages
> that can easily call "C" functions exported from DLLs.
>
> Other than that, though, you can use C++ in DLLs very effectively.  In fact,
> many Windows programmers generate and use MFC extension DLLs on a daily
> basis.

On all of these projects we never had the requirement to support multiple C++
compilers.  We did however support Perl bindings and for this we had to support
some C interfaces, but these were limited to a relatively small set of
interfaces.

> All that said, none of this really changes the problem domain.  There simply
> isn't a universal solution for what the poster wants.

Agreed.

Jeff