[gmpi] Re: calling C from C++
- From: David Olofson <david@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 01:24:38 +0100
On Monday 14 February 2005 00.46, Jeff McClintock wrote:
> > oh yeah, can we clean this up to something like:
> <snip>
>
> Cheers Tim, done.
>
> next question...
>
> extern "C" somefunction();
>
> is that standard C?
No, but it's standard C++...
> (MSC++ needs it to call a C function from C++)
Goes for all C++ compilers I know of (name mangling, if nothing else)
- which is why you #ifdef it like this in C headers that are to be
used with C++:
#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif
...
<C stuff>
...
#ifdef __cplusplus
};
#endif
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