On Sat, 14 Jun 1997, Mark Edward Johnston wrote:
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> On Sat, 14 Jun 1997, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
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> > Umm, what you are doing is passing a pointer to a C++ function to a subsystem
> > that expects a pointer to a C callback function. Doesn't that violate some
> > rule somewhere in the mighty C++ draft? ;)
>
> Well I think you're correct.
...well I don't think so anymore !
I asked about this on gnu.g++.help and comp.lang.c++ and the consensus
was that it is OK to pass a pointer to a C++ static member
function to a function which wants a pointer to a C function.
The essential difference between C and C++ functions is that the names
of the latter are mangled to allow overloading, so it would be
difficult for a C function to call a C++ function by name, but calling
one through a pointer is fine.
See the above newsgroups for the thread
"Can I use a C++ function pointer instead of a C one" if you're
interested.
One person gave the caveat that there might be a problem if the C and
C++ codes were compiled with different compilers, on some platforms,
but as far as I can tell from the gcc info files, such problems are
rare, and would be triggered by C code compiled by different compilers as
well.
So, it seems the example originally provided is OK.
Mark J.
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