extern "C" applied liberally?

[Ian Lance Taylor]

Jay K <jay.krell@cornell.edu> writes:

>   Any folks that get to see the mangled names, debugging, working on
>   binutils, whatever, are saved from them.

Demangling is easy and readily available.

I don't see any reason to add extern "C" indiscriminately at this time.
If there are concrete problems, then those are problems which presumably
affect all C++ programs and should be fixed.

Ian