Jonathan Wight wrote:
on 11/14/99 20:54, Paul F. Dubois at dubois1@llnl.gov wrote:
This reminds me to call attention of the C++ SIG to the article in the July/Aug 1999 C++ report that explains that pointers to C functions and pointers to C++ functions are no longer type compatible. This has serious implications for extending Python with C++, in that Python's tables expect a C function. Up to now it has been possible to just cast whatever to PyCFunction and move on; evidently some compilers will now start to object to that if the function in question is a C++ one. I haven't had time to look at this to see if I have a decent work-around.
If it is a static function couldn't you just declare it as " extern "C" "??? I know that works fine for various callbacks in the OS.
Jon.
Sorry for my ignorance. Is the C++ report something put out by the standard committee ? Is this something new to the standard, or has this "feature" been there for a while ? Thanks, -Ian