[DVDnav-discuss] misc issues

[Dan Nicholson]

On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 8:42 AM, Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 08:29:38AM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote:
>> On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 1:06 PM, Nico Sabbi <nicola.sabbi at poste.it> wrote:
>> > Il giorno dom, 14/09/2008 alle 21.50 +0200, Diego Biurrun ha scritto:
>> >> libdvdread and libdvdnav are full of
>> >>
>> >> - extern "C"
>> >
>> > uhm, there are quite a few MSVC fanboys here, maybe better keep them
>>
>> I guess you would first need to determine if you can use the API from
>> a C++ program without the extern "C" declaration before removing them.
>>
>> http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/mixing-c-and-cpp.html
>
> These should really be added in the C++ application using the C headers.

I suppose it's a matter of taste as I believe that the headers should
simply work with '#include <dvdnav/dvdnav.h>' from either C or C++.
Not that big of a deal either way, but it seems that the convention is
to add it to your C headers:

$ grep -rl 'extern "C"' /usr/include | wc -l
1897

--
Dan