VC++ extension

[Courageous]

> > This is because the designers
> > of C++, in Their Equally Infinite Wisdom (R), ah, well....
> > nevermind. Trust me, they biffed it.
> 
> Sorry - I dont trust you.  Please explain, ensuring that you take into
> consideration that a level of link-time type-safety was a goal...  And
> also the fact that it is only an issue for interfacing with C - if
> everyone got modern, there would be no issue here, either <wink>

The designers biffed it, because they failed to design link-level
compatability. This is a manycolored problem; a symbol name mangling
standard would have been a good first step.


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