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[greg_t]

Posted on August 06, 2011 at 09:11

&sharpifdef __cplusplus

extern ''C'' {

&sharpendif

I've seen the above in all the library header files , but what does it mean?

#mix-c-and-c++

[donald2]

Posted on August 06, 2011 at 13:21

It allows the header file to be used with either 'C' or C++ compilers.  You can ignore it.

[Andrew Neil]

Posted on August 06, 2011 at 20:00

http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/mixing-c-and-cpp.html#faq-32.2