dealing with libs that have lots of variables named "new"

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#1

Any clever solutions to this that I’m not aware of? The .h file to link to has lots of methods like:

void method(…TYPE *new);

Which is fine in C but not so cricket in C++. Is there some special C++ trick other than a massive renaming expedition on my part?

#2

if the compiler is freaking out with including “h” files from a c++ library, you can do:

  
  
extern "C" {  
 #include "myOldSchoolHFile.h"  
}

or something like that (writing it off memory)

then the compiler will treat that .h file as for c not c++.

see the c++ faq for tips on mixing c and c++

take care,
zach

#3

Ah, right, forgot about that, does the trick perfectly. Here’s the link in case anyone else is stumbling across this:

http://www.parashift.com/c+±faq-lite/m-…-d-cpp.html

Thanks!

#4

Ah, so just to give this a wee update, extern is cool for C code but ‘new’ isn’t cricket whether you wrap it or not, and it isn’t ok with g++ at all unless you set the language flag to c. gcc compiles it fine, but it’s definitely against the C++ standard, the only way I could get it to compile was to dig through the files and rename everything.