From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Nichols To: Sergey Okhapkin , "gnu-win32@cygnus.com" Subject: RE: MFC with egcs 1.1 (Was: MFC with CygWin) Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1998 11:14:00 -0000 Message-id: <3.0.2.32.19981009142444.006c6510@email.mcmail.com> References: <01BDF3A1.5EBEF8E0@sos> X-SW-Source: 1998-10/msg00263.html At 16:25 09/10/98 +0300, Sergey Okhapkin wrote: >Thomas Nichols wrote: >> what is the status of attempts to access the MFC DLLs from egcs? If the >> name-mangling schemes are incompatible, will this remain true in >> perpetuity, or are there plans to allow MS-style name mangling as an option >> to gcc? >> > >Name mangling is not the only problem. Gcc passes "this" pointer when calling class member on top of stack, but MSVC in ecx. > >-- >Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos >Moscow, Russia What are the possibilities of an "MSVC compatibility" switch for gcc at some future date? Do the compiler writers have this as a stated goal? If it can be done, and if the licensing can be resolved, GPL'd software could be quite as important under Windows as it has been under Un*x. (Before you ask, sorry, but I don't have any experience of building compilers... I can put in some time at the moment, though, if I can contribute anything useful.) Regards, Thomas Nichols. - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".