Re: error in epan/tfs.h

[sagar sg <sagu072 () gmail com>]

Okay, you mean to say we have to add the extern c { tfs.h } to the wireshark
code ?

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 6:45 PM, Andreas <AndreasSander1 () gmx net> wrote:

> Am 18.07.2011 10:12, schrieb Guy Harris:
>
>
> > On Jul 18, 2011, at 1:02 AM, Helge Kruse wrote:
> >
> >  I use always C++ to write my custom dissectors. Did you surround the
> > > Wireshark #include with extern "C" like this?
> >
> > Perhaps Wireshark should surround the body of epan/tfs.h with that....
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
>
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