From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: questions about bcd and c++
Date: 8 May 2000 12:46:42 GMT
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Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comremovebullcr_p> wrote:

> #ifdef __cplusplus
> #define EXTERN_C extern "C"
> #else
> #define EXTERN_C
> #endif

> Then prefix all function prototypes with EXTERN_C and send the new
> header file back to the maintainer.

Heavily over-complicated. A simple method is the one implemented by all
the DJGPP libc headers. At the beginning of the file, add:

	#ifdef __cplusplus
	extern "C" {
	#endif

and at the end:

	#ifdef __cplusplus
	}
	#endif


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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
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