[C++-SIG] Beginer questions

[David Beazley]

Paul F. Dubois writes:
> 
> 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.
> 

I ran into this problem with SWIG when I upgraded to a new C++
compiler.  To get around it, I just placed all of the wrapper code
inside an extern "C" block.  I'm not sure if this is an ideal
solution and I have no idea what it means for CXX.   It seemed to work
for SWIG however.

Cheers,

Dave