Mysterious C++

["Sam Lauber" <sam124 at operamail dot com>]

I had the idea of accessing C++ namespaces in a C program to make a complicated version of Hello World. I wrote a function "ns" to access the functions in a greeting namespace. The greeting namespace was

namespace greeting {
        char *greeting;
        void print(void), setstr(char *);
}

I wrote a C program to use the C++ program, compiled it with g++ cpp.c++ -x c c.c -g, and it didn't work. But when I added -O3 to the command line, it printed "Hello World". Bringing it down to -O still made it say Hello World, but turning off optimization stopped it. Very misterious. The sources are attached. The C file is c.c, the C++ file cpp.c++. I am using GCC 3.4.3.

Samuel Lauber
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