From: Luc Heinrich <luc@...>
Date: 2008-12-12T00:21:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Q: FFI and C++?

On 11 déc. 08, at 16:13, Jason Roelofs wrote:

> Because of the complexity that C++ adds, I doubt that any feasible FFI
> library can be made that works reliably against C++ libraries

The problem in the case of C++ is its non-standardized ABI which  
prevents binding to libraries without knowing the name mangling  
scheme. Pretty much the same reason why bitfield structs aren't  
supported in libffi: because their layout is not standardized and thus  
compiler dependent.

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