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  1. May 5th, 2002, 12:01 PM #1
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    Mixing C and C++

    I want to write a Macromedia Dreamweaver extension dll. Name mangling requires me to have parts of the source in a plain C module. I need access to C++ functions from there. How would I go about it?
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    Ok, I found out. I can write C stubs in the cpp files by preceding them with extern "C".
    Weird, I always thought this works only for declarations...
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    extern "C" works for everything, since a C++ compiler understands both C and C++ linking methods.

    As a result, you could have an overloaded function called in two different ways from an exported C function
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    I would discard the C module if there wasn't for this big macro that expands to a complete function...

    Did you know that even variable names (at least of globals) are mangled?
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    I was under the impression that everything that resolved to a linker symbol got mangled

    Not so sure why variable names are mangled, but I suppose there was a good reason for it at the time...
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