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From: sdm@cs.brown.edu (Scott Meyers)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.windows.x,gnu.g++
Subject: Re: X11 and C++
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Date: 14 Feb 90 05:56:23 GMT
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The X11R4 header files come with C++ declarations already in them.  For
example, this is from Xlib.h:

    #ifdef __cplusplus			/* do not leave open across includes */
    extern "C" {					/* for C++ V2.0 */
    #endif

I don't do X programming myself, so I can't vouch for how well the new
include files work with C++ (the distribution documentation says the
support isn't part of the official standard yet), but I know at least one
person doing X programming who's used the headers with cfront 2.0 without
any problems.

Scott
sdm@cs.brown.edu