Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!ucsd!ucbvax!galileo.berkeley.edu!jbuck From: jbuck@galileo.berkeley.edu (Joe Buck) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: TC++ include file madness Message-ID: <39526@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: 13 Nov 90 02:56:22 GMT References: <58170036@hpclapd.HP.COM> <5279@watson> Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: jbuck@galileo.berkeley.edu (Joe Buck) Lines: 14 In article <5279@watson>, watson@spock (Steve Watson) writes: |> extern "C" means that the functions prototyped inside the braces are to |> be treated as standard C, not C++ i.e. prepend underscore, do NOT perform |> name-mangling when writing them to the .obj. If this is documented in the |> TC++ manuals, then I MISSED IT! This is part of the C++ language as of version 2.0. Any compiler that does NOT implement this is broken. It's not up to Borland to give you an introductory language test; buy a good C++ book and read it. -- Joe Buck jbuck@galileo.berkeley.edu {uunet,ucbvax}!galileo.berkeley.edu!jbuck