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Re: COM DLL with Cygwin C++?


Julian Hall <jules@acris.co.uk> wrote on Fri, 13 Jul 2001 11:05:53 +0100:

> I tried to make this work a little while back; unfortunately G++'s
> object model seems to be incompatible with MSVC++'s, with the effect
> that only COM objects written in C can be compiled with G++.  I
> think this is due to the name mangling, but there is also a problem
> with exception handling.

> Jules

IIRC, COM uses its own (HRESULT-based) exception handling, so that's
not an issue.  Furthermore, name mangling has /nothing/ to do with
COM; COM lives exclusively at the binary level.  The only names COM
cares about are the hooks it uses to get your class factory, and I
believe they're `extern "C"'.

Any incompatibility between COM/MSVC++ and g++ that's relevant here
would be in the virtual function ABI, not in the areas you mention.

FYI

Jon Cast

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