egcs 1.1.1 / namespaces

[Michael Marxmeier]

Hello Martin.

> If you declare one of them extern "C", as in
> 
> extern "C" void foo(){}
> namespace X{
>   void foo(){}
> }
> 
> they are *still* different functions. The first one of them is "C
> compatible" (i.e. it has "C" linkage), the second one is not.

Ok, understood. Thanks for the insight.

> > > > extern "C" void Whatever(void);
> > > > 
> > > > namespace "me" {
> > > > extern "C"
> > > > void Whatever(void){}
> > > > }
> [...]
> > That would be fine for me but the name is mangled for the function
> > defined inside the namespace. And *that* smells like a bug.
> 
> Platform? Exact compiler version? Full program input? Error messages?

Oops. Sorry for the confusion - my mistake. The example above works
as explained by you. The one defined w/o the extern "C" in the
namespace got the name mangled.

I fixed my code (by trivially adding the extern "C" before the function
definition) so i can live with that. I was just cought by surprise.

If the extern "C" inside the namespace is understood as a shortcut
to temporarily get out of the namespace this is fine for me.
Though this might be worth a warning with the Weffc++ level?


Thanks a lot for your help
Michael

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