Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 09:21:47 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Paul Derbyshire <ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: MikMod210 [Linking C and C++ together]
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On 14 Apr 1996, Paul Derbyshire wrote:

> So THAT's what EXTERN "C" does! I've always wondered... it's in all the
> djgpp .h files, presumably because they used c++ to write the libraries
> such as libc and libpc.

No, these ``extern "C"'' declarations are there so C++ programs can call 
functions from the C library.  The library is written in C and (a small 
part of it) in assembly.