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From: ewiles@netxdev.DHL.COM (Edwin Wiles)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Using C++ lib with regular C code?
Keywords: Help
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Date: 10 Nov 89 16:16:24 GMT
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I have been tasked to write a library of functions for a set of existing
software.  I'd really like to use C++, but cannot (for various reasons)
make massive changes to the existing software.

So, my question is, how much trouble would it be to use a library written
in C++ with code that is written in plain old C?

The library must support multiple flavors of IPC (Inter Process Communications)
in a way that is as transparent as possible to the program using it.  In such a
way that only minor changes are required of existing software to use it.  I can
replace the open, read, and write calls -- and add 'init' calls to the startup
routines -- but I cannot completely rewrite the routines that use them.

How about it?  Am I just asking for a wet carp in the face?  Or is this fairly
easy to do?

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