[Mesa-dev] Mixing C & C++

Chad Versace chad at chad-versace.us
Tue Nov 8 12:45:51 PST 2011


On 11/08/2011 12:30 PM, Jose Fonseca wrote:
> Second, it would really help to clearly distinguish headers that are meant to be used exclusive by C++ with a different suffix (e.g., .hpp). And leave .h for headers that are meant for joint C/C++ consuption.
> 
> Take e.g., ../glsl/program.h, are these supposed to be C functions or C++ functions? There's no way to tell just from reading the headers. So it's not clear if those type/functions should be inside extern "C"  {..} or not.
> 
> 
> Is this OK?

I agree. Pure C++ headers should have the .hpp extension. That would eliminate some unnecessary confusion.

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Chad Versace
chad at chad-versace.us



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