Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 15:31:46 +0200 From: Graham Wheeler <gram@cequrux.com> To: Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Any chance of changing struct member names in nameser.h? Message-ID: <8fca3bbaa2f8337473c9f0334a4a5dff@cequrux.com> References: <200007071320.JAA86645@lakes.dignus.com>
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Thomas David Rivers wrote:
>
> extern "C" doesn't mean
>
> "The following source is C code"
>
> what it means is that any external linkage generated will use C
> linkage conventions. For most C++ implementations, this means
> "don't mangle function names".
>
> The source within an `extern "C"' block has to be parsable by
> the C++ parser... it's still C++.
>
> For example, you can't say:
>
> extern "PASCAL" {
> ... pascal source ...
> }
>
> and expect that to work...
>
> That's my understanding of how this works, anyway...
And your understanding is quite correct. I tried the extern "C" approach
when I first hit this problem, just to see if I would get lucky and that
it would allow names that are C++ reserved words, but of course it made
no difference.
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