[boost] Re: DLL/SO loading library.

Stefan Seefeld wrote:

David Abrahams wrote:

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You can do some nice things with C++ interfaces:

entry_point hello(some_lib, "greet"); hello(world);

What would that call to 'hello' do and how would you protect your application against ABI incompatibilities without heavy machinery ?

Normally it is the programmer's responsibility to ensure that the ABI is met. In C++ standard Windows DLLs many compilers provide #pragmas for setting the ABI so that when one #includes the appropriate header file for a class or a function in a DLL, the correct ABI is specified. While a DLL/SO loading library might try to handle ABI in some way I just wanted to point out that compiler specific mechanisms often support it.