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Re: An example: code to list exports of a Windows DLL.

From scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal)
Subject Re: An example: code to list exports of a Windows DLL.
Newsgroups comp.lang.c++
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Date 2019-08-22 13:17 +0000

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"Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach+usenet@gmail.com> writes:
>On 21.08.2019 21:41, Keith Thompson wrote:
>> "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach+usenet@gmail.com> writes:

>>> For example, I remember `$` being used in the system API in the HP3000.
>>> That's long ago, 1980s, but presumably use of `$` in system API function
>>> names was part of the reasons why compilers supported it. And continue
>>> to support it.
>> 
>> OpenVMS uses $ in identifiers (and C and C++ compilers for OpenVMS have
>> to allow for that).  Which is why, in my opinion, the standard *should*
>> allow compilers to accept $ in identifiers.
>> 
>> [...]
>
>Yes, I should have written MPE/IV, the OS we used on the HP3000. Sorry.

Which HP3000 language allowed '$' in identifiers?   On most HP3000
compilers the $ was used in column 1 to introduce compiler control
commands, for example in SPL/3000:

$TITLE "SON OF OVERLORD (SOO)"
$CONTROL USLINIT,NOWARN,MAP,CODE
$CONTROL SEGMENT=SOO
BEGIN ...

SPL did allow apostrophes in identifiers:

  INTEGER PRIORITY, XDS'SUB, MAXPCB', MODE;

The engineers that designed the HP3000 were mostly ex-burroughs
engineers, which is where the use of $ as a compiler control
originated.

>
>It's possible that all this is tied to the attempt to remove `$` in 
>ASCII, as I recall instigated by Russia or France, a political thing.

C'est what?

> I 
>mean, tied by the baffling decision to not include `$` in the C++ basic 
>execution character set.

Maybe because the '$' symbol was often substited with a national
symbol (e.g. the british pound symbol); it wasn't a fixed glyph
worldwide.

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An example: code to list exports of a Windows DLL. "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach+usenet@gmail.com> - 2019-08-02 03:36 +0200
  Re: An example: code to list exports of a Windows DLL. "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach+usenet@gmail.com> - 2019-08-02 11:22 +0200
  Re: An example: code to list exports of a Windows DLL. rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com - 2019-08-02 02:33 -0700
    Re: An example: code to list exports of a Windows DLL. "Chris M. Thomasson" <invalid_chris_thomasson_invalid@invalid.com> - 2019-08-02 16:54 -0700
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    Re: An example: code to list exports of a Windows DLL. "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach+usenet@gmail.com> - 2019-08-20 02:12 +0200
      Re: An example: code to list exports of a Windows DLL. Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-08-19 18:31 -0700
        Re: An example: code to list exports of a Windows DLL. David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-08-20 08:42 +0200
          Re: An example: code to list exports of a Windows DLL. Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-08-20 02:18 -0700
            Re: An example: code to list exports of a Windows DLL. Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2019-08-20 22:22 +1200
              Re: An example: code to list exports of a Windows DLL. Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-08-20 14:21 -0700
            Re: An example: code to list exports of a Windows DLL. David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-08-20 13:00 +0200
              Re: An example: code to list exports of a Windows DLL. Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-08-20 14:59 -0700
                Re: An example: code to list exports of a Windows DLL. David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-08-21 10:29 +0200
                Re: An example: code to list exports of a Windows DLL. "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach+usenet@gmail.com> - 2019-08-21 11:14 +0200
                Re: An example: code to list exports of a Windows DLL. Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-08-21 02:55 -0700
                Re: An example: code to list exports of a Windows DLL. "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach+usenet@gmail.com> - 2019-08-21 12:30 +0200
                Re: An example: code to list exports of a Windows DLL. David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-08-21 14:22 +0200
                Re: An example: code to list exports of a Windows DLL. Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-08-21 12:41 -0700
                Re: An example: code to list exports of a Windows DLL. "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach+usenet@gmail.com> - 2019-08-22 03:38 +0200
                Re: An example: code to list exports of a Windows DLL. Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-08-21 19:24 -0700
                Re: An example: code to list exports of a Windows DLL. James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2019-08-21 23:21 -0400
                Re: An example: code to list exports of a Windows DLL. "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach+usenet@gmail.com> - 2019-08-22 06:01 +0200
                Re: An example: code to list exports of a Windows DLL. James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2019-08-22 00:26 -0400
                Re: An example: code to list exports of a Windows DLL. "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach+usenet@gmail.com> - 2019-08-22 07:54 +0200
                Re: An example: code to list exports of a Windows DLL. James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2019-08-22 09:08 -0400
                Re: An example: code to list exports of a Windows DLL. "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach+usenet@gmail.com> - 2019-08-22 19:37 +0200
                Re: An example: code to list exports of a Windows DLL. scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2019-08-22 13:17 +0000
                Re: An example: code to list exports of a Windows DLL. David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-08-22 16:07 +0200
                Re: An example: code to list exports of a Windows DLL. Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-08-21 02:42 -0700
  Re: An example: code to list exports of a Windows DLL. Frederick Gotham <cauldwell.thomas@gmail.com> - 2019-08-20 04:09 -0700
    Re: An example: code to list exports of a Windows DLL. "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2019-08-20 17:24 -0700

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