From -7355599103614342234 X-Google-Thread: f78e5,b53358bee20fa31 X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!out02b.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!in01.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!news.alt.net!comp-std-cpp-robomod!not-for-mail From: Sean Hunt Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: Proposal for ISO C/C++: Extensions for Portable Compilation and Linkage Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 01:34:01 CST Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 27 Approved: Fergus Henderson , moderator of comp.std.c++ Message-ID: <19ecbc30-2540-4080-8bba-ee591e7d30ee@q3g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1197335233 23967 127.0.0.1 (11 Dec 2007 01:07:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 01:07:13 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at csse.unimelb.edu.au X-Authentication-Warning: mulga.csse.unimelb.edu.au: fjh set sender to devnull@stump.algebra.com using -f X-Robomod: STUMP, ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at csse.unimelb.edu.au X-Original-To: std-c++@mailman.ucar.edu Delivered-To: std-c++@mailman.ucar.edu X-SMTP-Auth: no Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: q3g2000hsg.googlegroups.com; posting-host=137.186.209.19; posting-account=Smd70AoAAABCOP2p30dDIo8rE8bw6zTx User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071204 Ubuntu/7.10 (gutsy) Firefox/2.0.0.11,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ucar.edu Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.std.c++:9787 On Dec 10, 5:07 pm, michaelsaf...@aim.com (Michael Aaron Safyan) wrote: > I would like to hear your feedback regarding this proposal:http://michaelsafyan.fw.nu/publications/ I like the exists() preprocessor function. That would make a great addition to the language, in my opinion. I also like the idea of specifying linkage libraries. The only problem is that the actual linkage is also platform-defined. I think that import/export handling would be handled, at least in some part, by the specification of n2425, when it matures, although that is (to date) C++-only. I think that these are new approaches to problems that plan on being solved in the future anyway, so it's worth considering these. Declaring a library specification within a source file may be beyond the scope of the C++ standard - maybe a standard extension unit should be created to better specify the interactions of both static and dynamic linked libraries. --- [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. To submit articles, try just posting with ] [ your news-reader. If that fails, use mailto:std-c++@ncar.ucar.edu ] [ --- Please see the FAQ before posting. --- ] [ FAQ: http://www.comeaucomputing.com/csc/faq.html ]