Re: how to make a static function a friend of a class

[Maett]

Larry I Smith wrote:
> Maett wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > I would like to access private class data out of a static function as
> > follows:
> >
> > foo1.h:
> >   class foo1Class {
> >     public:
> >       static int getN();
> >     private:
>
>          friend int ::foo1();
> >       // friend int foo1();
> >       static const int n;
> >   };
> >
> > foo1.cpp:
> >   #include "foo1.h"
> >
> >   const int foo1Class::n = 77;
> >
> >   int foo1Class::getN()
> >   {
> >     return foo1();
> >   }
>
>      int foo1()

But I would like foo1 to be static to avoid it being a global symbol.
(I have a tool which generates c++ code out of data structure definitions,  
and there are quite a few such definitions, which would lead to manymany  
global symbols. Unfortunately I am stuck to g++ 3.2.3 for the moment, so I  
can not use the
  __attribute__ ((visibility("hidden")))
mechanism of g++ 3.4 and later.)

> >   // static int foo1()
> >   {
> >     return foo1Class::n;
> >   }
> >
> >
> > Then g++ (3.2.3) tells me:
> >   foo1.cpp: In function `int foo1()':
> >   foo1.cpp:11: `int foo1()' was declared `extern' and later `static'
> >   foo1.h:5: previous declaration of `int foo1()'
> >
> > Which of course is correct.
>
> [snip]
>
> Regards,
> Larry

Is there a possibility with anonymous namespaces instead of "static" ?
I didn't succeed, either.