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From: jkl@csli.Stanford.EDU (John Kallen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Using C++ lib with regular C code?
Keywords: Help
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Date: 14 Nov 89 19:24:21 GMT
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In article <2204@dataio.Data-IO.COM> bright@dataio.Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright) writes:
!
!Construct C "wrapper" functions around your C++ code, and then document
!the interface as the C interface, as in:
!
!extern "C" int func(int a)
!{
!	return cppfunc(a);
!}

I just got ZTC v 2.0 and discovered I had to use the above construct
for most all my previously written code in C: type-safe linking forces me to.
My question is, (and apologies if this has been discussed before), 
is this: is this construct a standard? If so, where is it defined?

John.
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