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Subject: Mixing C and C++
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Date: 19 Apr 91 18:40:10 GMT
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Our g++ compiler issues a warning after seeing the function name
``flock'' inside a extern "C" { ... }
and then seeing the

struct flock { ...
    ...
    };


in the fctlcomm.h header file on the SUN.
The warning is

flock declared `extern' and now declared again as `static' ...

Question:  Why is the second declaration of flock static?  How in general
to avoid such name conflicts when including C/UNIX header files?

Thanks.