Re: C/C++ linkage issues

[CBFalconer]

Generic Usenet Account wrote:
> Rolf Magnus wrote:
> 
>> Hello Generic, your question is off-topic in all the newsgroups
>> you posted, since it isn't about Standard C++, Standard C, and
>> not about D either.
> 
> I DISAGREE.  The whole topic pertaining to the interworking
> between C and C++ code is of great interest to an entire community
> of programmers.  IMHO it is not OT for comp.lang.c or
> comp.lang.c++.  As far as comp.sources.d goes, any posting that
> pertains to source code falls within its realm.
> 
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> 
> I don't know what makes you feel that this topic is more relevant
> to the gnu.g++.help newsgroup.  My query was general, and not
> pertaining to g++.  I volunteered the compiler version, because
> often times fellow posters have asked for this kind of information
> in their response.  I submit that the issue of interoperability
> between C and C++ code has less to do with the compiler that is
> being used and more to do with the difference in C and C++ linkage. 
> I am therefore "undoing" the f'up.

The .lang groups deal with the language, not the nitty gritty of
moving the code into suitable places on end machines.  What makes
you think you can walk in from the street and postulate what is and
is not on-topic in these groups?  F'ups set.

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