[Ffmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Add allformats.h include file to move *_init() functions and other

[Rich Felker]

On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 07:19:30PM +0200, Diego 'Flameeyes' Petten? wrote:
> On Thursday 29 June 2006 19:06, Rich Felker wrote:
> > because it's part of the c++monkey mindset to add it to every header
> > file...
> Most likely because I simply put it when I'm not sure if the code ends up 
> being standalone or what. FFmpeg is currently being used/imported by other 
> projects, and "better safe than sorry" is my usual line here (especially 
> considering it's being used by wengophone that uses scons, which I don't 
> trust for correctly separate C and C++ code for instance).

extern "C" { } does not even belong in headers to be used by the
caller. instead, c++ apps should put their own extern "C" {} around
includes for C-language headers. libavcodec is written in C, not C++,
and extern "C" {} is not part of C.

rich