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From: raeburn@athena.mit.edu (Ken Raeburn)
Subject: Re: Calling c++ from a c program
In-Reply-To: rs@heike.informatik.uni-dortmund.de's message of 26 Jun 91 14:18:39 GMT
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In article <3575@laura.UUCP> rs@heike.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Roland Schwan) writes:

   ...c-file:

   main()
   {....
   ..
   something();
   ....
   }

The problem here is that some C++ implementations (UNIX ones at least
-- I haven't used others, and you didn't say what you were using)
require that `main' be compiled as C++ code, in order for constructors
for static objects to be run.

If you can't move this `main' routine into a C++ file, rename it to
`main2' or something, and add a new `main' routine in a C++ file which
simply calls `main2'.