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Re: C++: "unqualified" linkage
On Jan 17, 2000, "Martin v. Loewis" <martin@loewis.home.cs.tu-berlin.de> wrote:
> I thought this not very descriptive, either. I feel that 'global'
> things are those that can be qualified with '::', i.e. toplevel
> names. The feature doesn't affect scoping at all; it only affects the
> mangling. On the linker level, OTOH, all names are 'global'.
How about `extern "C::"'. To me, this reads as ``this is in the C
namespace''.
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