Re: [XaraXtreme-dev] JPEG lib namespace

[Christopher Jerome <christopher_jerome@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Luke,

They should have it properly namespaced anyway. and also it is in C  
so the interfaces should be declared extern "C", I do not know why it  
is not like that by default. I always add/change this too.. good  
point. I would probably find some other weird C bugs in libjpeg too,  
if I really looked deeper into it... I have found myself to be doing  
really ugly #ifdef etc etc #endif hackery to use the jpeg libs now  
and then, I think it really needs to be looked at, they have not  
updated libjpeg since 1998!.

Chris. J.

On 18/04/2006, at 6:20 PM, Luke Hart wrote:

Phil,

The official distribution of the JPEG library does not use C naming  
if __cplusplus is defined, but a quite popular patch is to add this.  
I found a distribution that does not have this patch over the weekend  
(but upgrading to an unstable version did). Would uncommenting your  
'extern "C"' lines cause an serious problems for distributions that  
do the work themsleves? If not I suspect that the best soultion may  
be to un-comment them.

Thanks,
    Luke