From: Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
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Subject: Re: questions about bcd and c++
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Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 14:21:39 GMT
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On 8 May 2000 12:46:42 GMT, Hans-Bernhard Broeker
<broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de> wrote:

>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

But wouldn't that choke on structs and global object declarations?

Oh, now I see.  Move all protos to the end of the header file and use
your wrapper around that.

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Damian Yerrick
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