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From: gribble@ogre.cica.indiana.edu
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Subject: Re: bug with making C++ functions have C linkage ?
Message-ID: <1991Apr18.013850.27005@cica.indiana.edu>
Date: 18 Apr 91 01:38:50 GMT
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I think you have it backwards--use extern to link C functions to C++.
It has to do w/ "name-mangling"--something C++ does to function names.


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