FreeTDS Development Group

["Lowden, James K" <LowdenJK AT bernstein.com>]

> From: Frediano Ziglio [mailto:freddyz77 AT tin.it]
> Sent: December 12, 2002 2:29 AM
> 
> In this day I'm 
> compiling FreeTDS with g++ (GNU C++ compiler) that found 
> those errors (C++ is much more typesafe) and I remove them. 
> So this types of warnings should just disappear. Do not try 
> however to link and use FreeTDS with a C++ compiler. It do 
> not work (for name mangling reasons).

Am I missing something?

It should be entirely possible to compile FreeTDS with a C++ compiler and
link it to a C program.  The header files are full of 

#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C"
{
#if 0
}
#endif
#endif

        which should be just:

#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C"
{
#endif

declaring all the functions as having C linkage.  

As a matter of fact, I'm thinking of rewriting parts of FreeTDS in C++ and
exporting the functions as C functions.  There are many places where the
flat namespace and lack of destructors makes the code complex in that way
that only C can.  

--jkl


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