Making a new GCC routine visible

[Jonathan Wakely]

On 19 May 2012 20:00, Amittai Aviram wrote:
> On May 19, 2012, at 2:16 PM, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
>
>> It's better to make the header self-sufficient:
>>
>> #ifdef __cplusplus
>> extern "C" {
>> #endif
>> void * domp_malloc(size_t);
>> #ifdef __cplusplus
>> extern "C" {
>> #endif

Oops, sorry for the careless copy & paste, this second one should
close the scope

#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif


> Thank you--I'll do that.  It says here
> http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/cpp/Standard-Predefined-Macros.html
> that "__cplusplus" is a standard symbol, so it should work even with other compilers.

Yes, the macro is required by the C++ standard.