On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 8:27 PM, Marcel Holtmann <marcel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Patrick,
>
>> The compiler error is:
>> /usr/include/bluetooth/bluetooth.h::131:9: error: invalid conversion from 'void*' to 'bt_get_le64(void*)::<anonymous struct>*'
>> ...
>>
>> The reason is that C++, in contrast to C, does not allow conversion of
>> void * to anything, and this code gets compiled as C++ when the app is
>> written in C++. The macro with the assignment itself is older, but only
>> recent Bluez starts to use it in inline functions, thus triggering the
>> problem.
>>
>> This patch keeps the "struct __attribute__((packed))" magic and merely
>> changes the typecast so that it works in C and C++. Like the existing
>> macro this patch relies on support for typeof.
>
> so I am applying this patch now, but I still have no idea what kind of
> stupid C++ compiler you are using. The section of this include is
> clearly marked as C code:
>
> #ifdef __cplusplus
> extern "C" {
> #endif
This only tells the compiler that this part has C linkage and not C++
Lucas De Marchi
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