On 18 jul. 2011, at 15:15, Andreas <AndreasSander1@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Am 18.07.2011 10:12, schrieb Guy Harris:
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>> On Jul 18, 2011, at 1:02 AM, Helge Kruse wrote:
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>>> I use always C++ to write my custom dissectors. Did you surround the Wireshark #include with extern "C" like this?
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>> Perhaps Wireshark should surround the body of epan/tfs.h with that....
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> Well, Wireshark is a C project. It uses C libraries as the GTK library. Therefore there is no need to add the 'extern "C"' guards to compile Wireshark.
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> It would be helpful, if all Wireshark header files add theses guards. This would improve the compatibility with C++ compilers. But this may be error prone, since the authors must remember this when creating a new header file. A missing guard would not be detected as long as a C++ user will use it. Therefore I prefer to set the guards in the consuming C++ project.
+1
Thanks,
Jaap
