Re: [bug-gnulib] Re: regex & g++

[Bruno Haible]

Paul Eggert wrote:
> Is there some simple
> way that we can work around this in the regex code, without having to
> make wholesale changes?  For example, can we surround all the code
> with extern "C" { ... } when compiling with C++?

No, extern "C" only affects the name mangling of symbols and the interpretation
of empty parameter lists in function declarations. It does not affect the
other language features (treatment of enums vs. int, char * vs. void *, etc.).

Bruno