Various patches against gmp-4.3.0

[Marc Glisse]

On Thu, 7 May 2009, Peter Cordes wrote:

> No.  In C++, if you want to reference stuff defined in C source
> files, the declarations should be inside extern "C" {} blocks.  So the
> C++ compiler knows it has to do things the C-compatible way.  As I
> understand it, the major effect is to turn off name mangling.  If C++
> had a different function calling convention than C on a certain
> platform, extern "C" declarations would solve that problem too.  If
> structs had different alignment defaults in C vs. C++, you would need
> extern "C", too.  (unlikely, I know, but maybe some C++ compilers take
> extern "C" to mean "be compatible with some special ABI stuff, not
> just the C version of that same compiler.)

I believe that last one (struct alignment) is wrong. I just checked 
section 7.5 of the standard: the only things that are supposed to be 
affected by language linkage specifications are: function types, function 
names and variable names.

But Michiel De Wilde and you are perfectly right for point_string, it does 
indeed require the extern "C". Thank you both.

-- 
Marc Glisse