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From: hardin@hpindda.HP.COM (John Hardin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: C++ masquerading as C ... How?
Message-ID: <6170011@hpindda.HP.COM>
Date: 6 Jan 90 01:22:34 GMT
Organization: HP Information Networks, Cupertino, CA
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Pardon the ignorance of a beginner, but can someone tell me how to make a
separately compiled function written in C++ look like a normal C function
to a program written in C?  Is this possible, or must the C program call
the external function by the encoded name produced by C++?

I inferred that this was possible from a line in B. Stroustrup's article
"Type-safe Linkage for C++":

    This leaves the problem of how to call a C function or a C++
    function "masquerading" as a C function.

What I'm asking is how one makes a C++ function masquerade as a C function.

Thanks in advance for any help.

John Hardin
Hewlett Packard, Information Networks Division
hardin%hpindgi@hplabs.hp.com
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