[C++-SIG] Beginer questions

[Jonathan Wight]

on 11/14/99 20:54, Paul F. Dubois at dubois1 at 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.