RE: [boost] plain pointers and shared_ptr

From: Stewart, Robert (stewart_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-03-27 08:35:20

From: William Kempf [mailto:williamkempf_at_[hidden]]
> 
> >From: "Jeff Garland" <jeff_at_[hidden]>
> >
> >I have to back up Robert here.  I've worked on a number of large, 
> >multi-team,
> >C++ only projects that use DLL's extensively. I've seen 
> these both on 
> >Windows
> >and Unix.  It works beautifully.
> 
> 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.

These are good points, but Jeff was referring to "C++ only projects."
Implicit in that, I assumed a common C++ toolset.  If you must get multiple
C++ compilers to interoperate, then your only option is extern "C", though
interoperability isn't guaranteed.

Rob
Susquehanna International Group, LLP
http://www.sig.com