On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 11:13:46AM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote: > This is bad, as it breaks compatibility with including .c header files, > really bad! Tom? Jakub? C and C++ are different languages, there are many things valid in C and invalid in C++ and vice versa. extern "C" is just a linkage thing, doesn't magically change the source language temporarily to C. So, if you want to include some header in C++, that header needs to be includable in C++, i.e. must use the common subset of C and C++. That includes stuff like not using C++ keywords (new, delete, ...), adding casts where C++ doesn't allow implicit casting but C does, and among yet other things for functions without arguments using type fn (); or type fn (void), but not typedef void something; ... type fn (something); in prototypes or fn definitions. Jakub -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
