Re: Difference in mangling

From: Barry Margolin (barry.margolin_at_level3.com)
Date: 07/29/03 

Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 14:35:50 GMT

In article <bg5ulc$l8v4q$1@ID-197517.news.uni-berlin.de>,
lomat <atambe@ideas.com> wrote:
>In short, (as mangling is compiler dependent) my compiler is mangling the
>symbols in a way different from the compiler that was used to build the
>library I am trying to link to. As a result I am getting an un-resolved
>symbol error. How do I solve this?

In general you can't link object files that were compiled with different
C++ compilers. The layout of classes and the calling sequence of member
functions is likely to be different. The different mangling is on purpose,
to prevent you from accidentally linking together incompatible code. 

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