From: Sean O'Halpin <sean.ohalpin@...>
Date: 2008-12-12T02:11:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Q: FFI and C++?

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 3:21 PM, Charles Oliver Nutter
<charles.nutter@sun.com> wrote:
> 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, though
>> Charles will probably be a better voice for whether this is truely
>> possible or not.
>
> Wayne and I talked about this a bit, and largely the problem is the
> name-mangling involved. So there would always need to be a compile phase for
> the C++ stuff to be callable from an FFI-based library.

The compile step may not be necessary. I'm looking at using gccxml to
generate function signatures. It provides the mangled names in the
output (and emulates a number of compilers including MSVC versions 6
to 8). I'll report back as I find out more.

Regards,
Sean