From: Jeremy Maitin-Shepard (jbms_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-07-18 19:24:52
Rob Stewart <stewart_at_[hidden]> writes:
> From: "Jonathan Turkanis" <technews_at_[hidden]>
[snip]
>> Unfortunately, when compiled as C++, the zlib and libbz2 headers declare the
>> allocation and deallocation function pointer types as extern "C", and Compaq
>> (correctly, I think) refuses to let me assign pointers to static member
>> functions to variables whose type are declared extern "C".
> The static member functions have C++ language linkage, not C
> language linkage, so Tru64 is correct.
It seems to me that it is the calling convention that matters, not the
linkage/name mangling. I don't see what extern "C" applied to a
function pointer type means. This restriction does not seem right to
me.
[snip]
-- Jeremy Maitin-Shepard