Mathias Broxvall <mbr### [at] swipnetseNOSPAM> wrote in article
<1d8### [at] dialup122-3-36swipnetse>...
> 
> >       Yeah, it easy, you just write the public interfaces in C, rather
than C++,
> > then name mangling doesn't matter as all the mangled names are kept
within
> > the library.
> 
> Great! Sorry if this question isn't realy about programming povray:
> 
> Are there a standard for it? I have seen the following in some
> of my system headers, is it the same on other platform to?
> 
> extern "C" {
>   ...
>   /* All my great C prototypes here */
>   ...
> }

	Yeah, that's the way to do it. I don't know how platform independent it is
though, so you may run into problems and I've a feeling, even if it is part
of the current C++ standard, it may well be dropped when the ANSI C++
standard is finally released, sometime this year (hopefully), but,
hopefully the name mangling problem will be cleared up as well.

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