From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Aug 26 15:06:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA11290 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 26 Aug 1997 15:06:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from news.IAEhv.nl (root@news.IAEhv.nl [194.151.64.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id PAA11274 for ; Tue, 26 Aug 1997 15:06:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from LOCAL (uucp@localhost) by news.IAEhv.nl (8.6.13/1.63) with IAEhv.nl; pid 29625 on Tue, 26 Aug 1997 22:06:05 GMT; id WAA29625 efrom: peter@grendel.IAEhv.nl; eto: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: (from peter@localhost) by grendel.IAEhv.nl (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA01221; Tue, 26 Aug 1997 23:21:40 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <19970826232140.15125@grendel.IAEhv.nl> Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 23:21:40 +0200 From: Peter Korsten To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ATT Unix for Windows ! References: <199708261433.HAA13625@hub.freebsd.org> <199708261537.LAA24177@gatekeeper.itribe.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.67e In-Reply-To: <199708261537.LAA24177@gatekeeper.itribe.net>; from Jamie Bowden on Tue, Aug 26, 1997 at 11:41:44AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jamie Bowden shared with us: > On Tue, 26 Aug 1997, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote: > > > i am surprised by this, a friend of mine here, recently had to > > learn C. the course dictated the use of VC++. he went thru > > hell getting VC++ to do what he wanted. i showed him how i > > would do it in xemacs/gcc (i am NOT xemacs skilled much less > > a wizard). he wanted to know why he had to use VC++! > > > > one ancedote for what its worth. > > Especially considering c++ is not c. I don't see the problem. VC++ distinguishes between C and C++. If you don't use C++, you get C-style linking. If you mix the two, you have to place something like #if defined( __cplusplus ) extern "C" { #endif in your code - but that's really the standard way of doing things. - Peter