From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT acp3bf DOT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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Subject: Re: libraries headaches
Date: 20 Jan 2000 13:11:20 GMT
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sam <samirw AT connection DOT com> wrote:
[...]
> So who can tell me how to name my functions so that I can write C++ code
> and libraries.

Your problem, most probably, is not with C++ itself, or the names of
your functions. It's with *mixing* C and C++ parts (C library, C++
main program) in the same program.

> I have stumbled across the term 'name mangling'???

That's exactly your problem, I suspect. C++ adds information to the
names of objects (variables, functions) to carry type information, for
things like polymorphism, i.e. a function

	int dosomething(double arg1, char *arg2);

may become the following linker-visible symbol:

	.globl dosomething__FdPc

C doesn't do that, so the same function would be compiled to

	.globl dosomething_

and that's it. To avoid this, you have to *tell* the C++ compiler that
an external function declaration (prototype in a header) is for a
C, not a C++ function. 

	extern "C" {
	 /* C declarations here */
	}

does that for you. Read up the details in Stroustrup or some other C++
textbook.


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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.