Re: Flex 2.5.23 beta and C++

[W. L. Estes]

On Tuesday, 22 October 2002,15:05 +0100, Mark Weaver wrote:

> C++ uses namespaces, and this is an inherent part of the language.  If you
> want old style global function declarations, you can typically (of course
> this depends on your compiler; I've not seen one for this doesn't work
> however) include the old style header.  That is:
> 
> #include <cstdio>
> 
> will require a 'std::' prefix and
> 
> #include <stdio.h>
> 
> will not.  The difference is 'pure' C++ vs C compiled as C++.  Typically the
> latter has functions declared with extern "C" (and it's a good bet that the
> former does namespace std { using ::exit }).

Thanks for the clarification.

--Will