From: Thomas Demmer <demmer AT lstm DOT ruhr-uni-bochum DOT de>
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Subject: Re: HELP:  Linker hates me!
Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 08:57:15 +0200
Organization: Lehrstuhl fuer Stroemungsmechanik
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Martin Str|mberg wrote:
[...]
> 
> Well  I don't have any problems with that code:
> descartes:/tmp> gcc -Wall main.cc stuff.cc
> main.cc:3: warning: return type for `main' changed to integer type
> 
> However this is more interresting:
> descartes:/tmp> gcc -Wall main.cc stuff.c
> main.cc:3: warning: return type for `main' changed to integer type
> /tmp/cca125441.o: In function `main':
> /tmp/cca125441.o(.text+0x8): undefined reference to `foo(void)'

Well, C++ does name mangling, so 
int foo(void);
is turned into something like
_foo_iv
by the C++ compiler to enable type safe linking. 

The C compiler just turns this into _foo. To make your second example
work replace the prototype in main by
extern "C" {
   int foo(void);
}

-- 
Ciao
Tom

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