extern "C"?

[Ivan Martinez]

	Hello all,
	My program compiled right until one day my system crashed in
compilation time. Now I get the next error:

/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mandrake-linux/2.95.2/../../../../include/g++-3/streambuf.h:35:
syntax error before string constant

So I have at that line 35 of "streambuf.h" and I find:

extern "C" {
#include <libio.h>
}

Is the line correct?. What does it mean?. Why dit it work before and I
get a syntax error now?. Is there any compiler option to make it work
again?. Thank you.
-- 
Ivan Martinez (Rodriguez)
BEng in Software Engineering - MEng student
http://www.student.dtu.dk/~u990873
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