mixing C and C++

Nathan Sidwell nathan@codesourcery.com
Thu Oct 2 16:56:00 GMT 2003


Eljay Love-Jensen wrote:
> Hi Frank,
> 
> The scenario you describe should work just fine, given that you are extern "C"-ing, compiling and linking appropriately.
> 
> I have a code base with 17,000 source files, some C, some C++ ... and I haven't had any issues with the mixed C/C++ environment.

You should compile the file containing 'main' and link the program with
g++. On some systems that is not necessary, it may or may not be
on yours.

nathan

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