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From: ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (Paul Derbyshire)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: MikMod210 [Linking C and C++ together]
Date: 14 Apr 1996 08:30:46 GMT
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Eric NICOLAS (nicolas AT dsys DOT ceng DOT cea DOT fr) writes:
> So, when you use those include files as C-code, nothing special happens, BUT
> when you use those include files in C++ code, they will be delimited by
> 	extern "C" { ... }
> So old-C function names will be generated.

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.

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