[R] .C() and C++ name mangling
Douglas Bates
bates at stat.wisc.edu
Wed Oct 2 23:41:52 CEST 2002
Andy Jacobson <andyj at splash.princeton.edu> writes:
> Howdy,
>
> I'm working with some external code written in C++, which I
> would like to call via dyn.load() and .C() from R. The
> function prototype looks like:
>
> gaRemin(int *, float *, float *, int *, float *, float *,
> float *, float *, float *)
>
> but to call this function from R using .C() I have had to use
> the mangled version of this function name,
>
> gaRemin__FPiPfT1T0T1N41
>
> Is using the mangled name my best option, or is there some way
> that R knows to interpret unmangled function names from C++
> shared library objects?
>
> I'm concerned about portability of the resultant code in the
> case that name-mangling is handled differently from platform
> to platform.
>
> This is Linux, Redhat 7.2 with g++-2.96.
>
> Thanks for any help you can offer,
>
> Andy
>
> --
> Andy Jacobson
>
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