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From: schmidt@zola.ics.uci.edu (Doug Schmidt)
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Subject: Re: using C header files with C++
Message-ID: <1989Oct5.222720.7199@paris.ics.uci.edu>
Date: 5 Oct 89 22:27:20 GMT
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In-reply-to: riedl@cs.purdue.EDU (John T Riedl)

In article <RIEDL.89Oct5161459@medusa.cs.purdue.EDU>, riedl@cs (John T Riedl) writes:
>I have a library of C routines that I want to use from C++.  Of
>course, the function declarations in the header file are in C form
>without any argument specifications (e.g., int f();).  Is there a
>trick to get G++ to accept these declarations?  If not, is there a
>solution that doesn't require me to make a separate header file for
>G++ (with the '...' argument notation)?  How do other people solve
>this problem?

Try using the -fno-strict-prototype option.  Perhaps a better
long-term solution is to get ahold of Ron Guilmette's `protoize'
program and ANSIify your header files...  You can contact 
Ron at rfg@ics.uci.edu.

Doug
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