At Sunday 21/1/2007 05:38, Martin v. Löwis wrote: >Gabriel Genellina schrieb: > > This would only work, if runtime dll's were compatibles between them, > > and they are not. You can't blindly redirect a call to msvcr71.__xyz to > > msvcr80.__xyz and expect that to work magically - it may have a > > different number of arguments, or different types, or even may not exist > > anymore. > >Actually, the libraries *are* binary-compatible (on the ABI level). You >just can't mix two libraries in a single program easily.
That's a good thing - but is this just by accident, or is documented somewhere? I remember that I tried something like that in the past, and failed. (Perhaps earlier versions where not fully backwards compatible - or I didn't try hard enough that time). -- Gabriel Genellina Softlab SRL __________________________________________________ Preguntá. Respondé. Descubrí. Todo lo que querías saber, y lo que ni imaginabas, está en Yahoo! Respuestas (Beta). ¡Probalo ya! http://www.yahoo.com.ar/respuestas -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list