no_extern_c.h revision b8e80941
1b8e80941Smrg/************************************************************************** 2b8e80941Smrg * 3b8e80941Smrg * Copyright 2014 VMware, Inc. 4b8e80941Smrg * All Rights Reserved. 5b8e80941Smrg * 6b8e80941Smrg * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a 7b8e80941Smrg * copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), 8b8e80941Smrg * to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation 9b8e80941Smrg * the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, 10b8e80941Smrg * and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the 11b8e80941Smrg * Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: 12b8e80941Smrg * 13b8e80941Smrg * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included 14b8e80941Smrg * in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. 15b8e80941Smrg * 16b8e80941Smrg * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS 17b8e80941Smrg * OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, 18b8e80941Smrg * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL 19b8e80941Smrg * THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR 20b8e80941Smrg * OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, 21b8e80941Smrg * ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR 22b8e80941Smrg * OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. 23b8e80941Smrg * 24b8e80941Smrg **************************************************************************/ 25b8e80941Smrg 26b8e80941Smrg 27b8e80941Smrg/* 28b8e80941Smrg * Including system's headers inside `extern "C" { ... }` is not safe, as system 29b8e80941Smrg * headers may have C++ code in them, and C++ code inside extern "C" 30b8e80941Smrg * leads to syntatically incorrect code. 31b8e80941Smrg * 32b8e80941Smrg * This is because putting code inside extern "C" won't make __cplusplus define 33b8e80941Smrg * go away, that is, the system header being included thinks is free to use C++ 34b8e80941Smrg * as it sees fits. 35b8e80941Smrg * 36b8e80941Smrg * Including non-system headers inside extern "C" is not safe either, because 37b8e80941Smrg * non-system headers end up including system headers, hence fall in the above 38b8e80941Smrg * case too. 39b8e80941Smrg * 40b8e80941Smrg * Conclusion, includes inside extern "C" is simply not portable. 41b8e80941Smrg * 42b8e80941Smrg * 43b8e80941Smrg * This header helps surface these issues. 44b8e80941Smrg */ 45b8e80941Smrg 46b8e80941Smrg#ifdef __cplusplus 47b8e80941Smrgtemplate<class T> class _IncludeInsideExternCNotPortable; 48b8e80941Smrg#endif 49