Re: [boost] [iostreams][tru64] can't pass static mem fn to API expecting extern "C"

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]

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Jeremy Maitin-Shepard