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Subject: Re: Function overloading ?
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 15:10:26 -0400
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PT wrote:

> Following code fails to compile , ... declaration of C function 'int test()'
> conflicts with previous declaration 'int test(int*)'...
> 
> However when i place the function prototypes in the cpp file, it compiles
> and links.
> 
> Any idea?

You have told the compiler that test() is a C function, rather than a 
C++ function, and C functions don't overload:


> --- file: F1.cpp ---------------
> #include "f1.hpp"

[from F1.hpp]

> #ifdef __cplusplus
>    extern "C" {
> #endif

> int test(int *i);
> int test(void);

> #ifdef __cplusplus


Lose the extern "C" stuff.