On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 12:54:07PM +0200, Dominik Kubla wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 11:49:18AM +0200, Jes Sorensen wrote:
>
> > The kernel is written in GNU C (ie. C with gcc extensions) and using
> > keywords such as 'new' is _perfectly_ valid. The fact that the C++
> > people introduced extra keywords is really irrelevant for the kernel
> > development.
>
> And i think that stumbling over C++ reserverd words in a block explictily
> declared 'extern "C" {...}' as i suggested is a bug in either the standard
> or the implementation of said standard in the compiler. What does the
> ISO-C++ standard say about this?
The ISO standard says that extern "C" specifies that functions
declared in an extern "C" block have C-style linkage. Stroustrup says
(Third edition, section 9.2.4) 'Note that the C in extern "C" names a
linkage convention and not a language'
The compiler is doing the right thing.
Sean
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