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to: Jeffrey White
from: Michael Douglass
date: 1994-06-29 14:44:16
subject: BCOS/2 1.5 & C++ Libs

JW> DL>Jon Wright from Guidelines Support stated that Guidelines 2.1A is not
  > >compatible with BCOS/2 1.5, only 1.01.  This is also true of Watcom 10.0;
  > >Because of name mangling, it only works with Watcom 9.5.

JW> DL>Apparently Watcom and Borland changed the way they mangle names in C++ f
  > >Watcom 10.0, BC 4.0, and BCOS/2 1.5.

JW> MD> Well, did Jon say anything about a quick fix?  He has failed to
  > MD> respond to my questions concerning this.  If it is a simple rebuild of
  > MD> the .LIB files, let us know...  Why would Borland do this and lose the
  > MD> backward compatibility?

JW>     If true, then no old C++ LIBRARIES (Zinc, Zapp, etc.) would work
  >     with the new BCOS/2 1.5.  Rule one always have complete source
  >     for every library that you use or do not use it. Now you know
why .

Well, they don't sell their source code, and I can understand why.
You'd have to know what Guidelines is (I'm not saying you don't) to
really understand, it would be partially counter-productive if they give
us the source code.

Michael Douglass
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