Function Name Mungling - Page 2

Jim Mackellan

In my opinion, C not mungling its function names imposes unnecessary
complexity on C++, requiring extern 'C' { ... } everywhere in headers.

I believe that in the next version of the ISO standard, C should move to
mungling its function names consistently with C++ to improve
interoperabilit y. Acutally this should have happened long ago.

Regards,
Jim

Jan 6 '08

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Eric Sosman

Jim Mackellan wrote:

In my opinion, C not mungling its function names imposes unnecessary
complexity on C++, requiring extern 'C' { ... } everywhere in headers.

I believe that in the next version of the ISO standard, C should move to
mungling its function names consistently with C++ to improve
interoperabilit y. Acutally this should have happened long ago.

Another thing: The fact that C's keywords cannot be used
as identifiers creates unnecessary hurdles for a Fortran-to-C
translator. I believe the next version of the Standard should
do away with keywords.

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Jan 6 '08 #11

Serve Lau

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Another thing: The fact that C's keywords cannot be used
as identifiers creates unnecessary hurdles for a Fortran-to-C
translator. I believe the next version of the Standard should
do away with keywords.

or make identifier with the same name as keywords possible :P

Jan 6 '08 #12

Bart C

Eric Sosman wrote:

Jim Mackellan wrote:
>In my opinion, C not mungling its function names imposes unnecessary
complexity on C++, requiring extern 'C' { ... } everywhere in
headers. I believe that in the next version of the ISO standard, C should
move to mungling its function names consistently with C++ to improve
interoperabili ty. Acutally this should have happened long ago.

Another thing: The fact that C's keywords cannot be used
as identifiers creates unnecessary hurdles for a Fortran-to-C
translator.

That seems a minor detail, if it's even necessary for the most of the names
appearing in the C code to bear any relation to the Fortran ones. Just add a
unique suffix in those few cases. Where names must match globally, it's
necessary to use the same scheme throughout (but how many global names will
be C keywords?).

Probably clashing with C library names is more likely.

Anyway does Fortran still use upper case? Then there's no problem.

Bart

Jan 6 '08 #13

SM Ryan

Eric Sosman <es*****@ieee-dot-org.invalidwrot e:
# Jim Mackellan wrote:
# In my opinion, C not mungling its function names imposes unnecessary
# complexity on C++, requiring extern 'C' { ... } everywhere in headers.
# >
# I believe that in the next version of the ISO standard, C should move to
# mungling its function names consistently with C++ to improve
# interoperabilit y. Acutally this should have happened long ago.
#
# Another thing: The fact that C's keywords cannot be used
# as identifiers creates unnecessary hurdles for a Fortran-to-C
# translator. I believe the next version of the Standard should
# do away with keywords.

This was done in PL/1 which only had reserved words in the
48 character sources.

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SM Ryan http://www.rawbw.com/~wyrmwif/
She broke your heart and inadvertently drove men to deviant lifestyles.

Jan 6 '08 #14

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