Re: [XaraXtreme-dev] JPEG lib namespace

["Ben Fowler" <ben.the.mole@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 21/04/06, Ben Fowler <ben.the.mole@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 18/04/06, Martin Wuerthner <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > In message <4444A130.8040804@xxxxxxxx>
> >           Luke Hart <lukeh@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > [ snip ]
> >
> > I do not think nested extern "C" blocks are forbidden (but I could not
> > find any definitive statement on this in Stroustrup), so I cannot
> > think of a reason why the lines cannot be uncommented.
>
> It should be in Stroustrup somewhere. The text of the standard is
> something like:
>
> "Linkage specifications nest.  When linkage  specifications  nest,  the
>   innermost  one  determines the language linkage.  A linkage specifica-
>   tion does not establish a scope."
>
> It may have originally been worded slightly more loosely than that.
>
> You should be able to find it by Googling for the significant words,
> for example,
> http://www.csci.csusb.edu/dick/c++std/cd2/dcl.html near the bottom.

I meant to add that the page at
http://www.mozilla.org/hacking/portable-cpp.html though a little
heavyweight mentions this briefly. I may be sticking my neck out, but
I would have thought that the Xara LX project (at least in the short
term) can work on the basis that all viable platforms have modern
compilers, and concise, correct code is to be preferred over code
crafted for non standards-aware tools.

Ben