Re:Comparing C and C++ usage and performance with a real wor...
by aidenn0 on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @08:21PM
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Yeah, MSVC breaking ABI is somewhat annoying, but I am also used to keeping the most recent half-dozen MSVC's installed.
VS 6.0 is getting very hard to source legally these days, and I wish MS made it easier to get.
As far as having high-level languages call directly into C++, yes that's quite a pain (nearly impossible without something like https://github.com/rpav/c2ffi). Note also that calling into non-C ABI functions in any language is hard (and most HLLs don't support anything like extern "C" to make it easy).
VS 6.0 is getting very hard to source legally these days, and I wish MS made it easier to get.
As far as having high-level languages call directly into C++, yes that's quite a pain (nearly impossible without something like https://github.com/rpav/c2ffi). Note also that calling into non-C ABI functions in any language is hard (and most HLLs don't support anything like extern "C" to make it easy).