DIP45: fixing the dllimport/dllexport issue

[Paulo Pinto]

Am 08.09.2013 09:33, schrieb Benjamin Thaut:
> Am 27.08.2013 12:12, schrieb Benjamin Thaut:
>> The current behaviour of export is not sufficient to create a shared
>> runtime on windows. Its alos not working very well in a few other cases.
>> For background information please read the links provided in the DIP.
>> This DIP tries to solve the problem by imitating the proven preprocessor
>> techniques used in C/C++ to create windows dlls.
>>
>> Destroy.
>>
>> Kind Regards
>> Benjamin Thaut
>
> There is yet another problem to be solved. What should happen with
> tempaltes? Does it make sense to export templates? What happens if a
> template class marked with export gets instanciated in different DLLs
> using the same template arguments? Should the TypeInfo objects match?
> Should templates be exportable in generall?
>
> In C++ the only thing I needed so far was exporting static members of
> templated classes. So the different instances of the template can work
> on the same data.
>
> Kind Regards
> Benjamin Thaut


Good question. Not sure how Ada, Modula-3, Eiffel, Delphi, MLton solve 
the issue, even though their generic capabilities are not as powerfull.

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Paulo