set_new_handler change

[Gary Thomas]

On 24-Aug-98 Jason Merrill wrote:
>>>>>> Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com> writes:
> 
>  > It appears that previously set_new_handler needed to be inside an
>  > extern "C" { ... } block.  At least the sgml-tools SRPM thinks that
>  > is the case.
> 
>  > However, if I build the sgml-tools SRPM, I get an undefined reference
>  > to set_new_handler.  Looking in libgcc.a in the egs-1.1 tree it appears
>  > as if the name is c++ mangled -- which would imply that set_new_handler
>  > should not be placed in extern "C" blocks.
> 
>  > Did we intentionally change this behavior?
> 
> Yes.  set_new_handler is supposed to have C++ linkage.
> 

What should be done with existing apps that were built with the old
linkage?  A most useful example that comes to mind is NetScape.  This
is a case where getting the application built using the new linkage
may be difficult or impossible.

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