extern c in cpp file`

[Nathan Sidwell]

Eljay Love-Jensen wrote:
> Hi Yamin,
> 
> The  consequences of declaring a function as extern "C" are...
> 
> 1) the name will be mangled according to your platform's C mangling convention*.
> 2) I recall (and I may be mistaken) that such a function acts as a "C barrier", and thus exceptions do not propagate through such a function.
you are mistaken. when compiled by a C++ compiler, you'll get all the C++
exception semantics. When compiled by a C compiler, you might or might not
get unwind info emitted (with gcc -fexceptions, you will IIRC).

nathan

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