Re:C++ Patterns: The Badge
by bdowling on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @04:08AM
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It's still an honor system. There's a way to generate code that will call the "private" or "protected" data/function even if it violates what's specified in the headers.
That's not the case on Windows. The access qualifier is part of the mangled name. https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Visual_C%2B%2B_name_mangling...