Amritanshu Agrawal

• Sep 5th, 2006

 

Hi all,

The reason behind function overloading is this that the compiler rename all the function on the application. This is called as "name mangling".Like c++,JAVA compilers do.

But the c compiler never mangle the name so we can't overload any function in C.

pushkar

• Sep 6th, 2006

 

hello sir this is the question asked by me in an interview even i told them what you told me but after listening my answer they again asked me that is ok but what is the reason behind it.

jose

• Oct 19th, 2006

 

overloading is polymorphism which is one of the characteristics of Object oriented programming. C is not and object oriented language like C++ or Java. Therefore, no overloading, inheritance, etc.