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Subject: Re: question about errors when I change my C code to C++

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 14:03:45 02/24/03

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On February 24, 2003 at 16:44:24, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On February 24, 2003 at 16:27:09, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>I try to change my C files to C++ after advice that I got when people told me
>>that inline functions are better macro(note that I do not know why they are
>>better but I found that C++ give me better warning than C for some reason.
>>
>>The problem is that for some reason I also get errors that I do not understand.
>>
>>I get the following errors for some varaibles when I change my C files to CPP
>>files
>>
>>error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "int *  info" (?info@@3QAHA)
>>
>>Note that it is only for varaibles that I used for them the following trick
>>
>>int PADDED_info[80];
>>int * const info = PADDED_info+8;
>>
>>I have in data.h
>>extern int * const info;
>>I do not understand what is the problem.
>
>Probably, you have a mix of C and C++ files.
>If so, the C++ routines will not see the C functions because of something called
>"name mangling" that changes the format of the name that the linker will see.
>There are several ways to fix it.  Here are two possibilities:
>
>1.  Change all the files to C++ files at the same time.
>2.  Use extern "C" declarations for the C functions you must access


No

I have only 4 c files and I changed them to cpp files(the message that I get is
only compiling main.cpp and the same for 3 different files when I rebuild
movei).

Maybe it is better if I have more files and I see that other do it but basically
I started by coping the file structure of tscp
except the fact that I have only one file for search and evaluation(my
evaluation is small and part of it is also done inside makemove because movei
evaluate every node).

I do not know what is the advantage of having a lot of files.

Uri



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