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Hi,
Max Welton (maxw@lmsc.lockheed.com) wrote:
: shekar@gizmo.cs.msstate.edu (Shekar Ramanathan) wrote:
: >What you should do is have another file called foo.c and compile it using
: >a K&R C compiler.  In main.C, you should just include a prototype declaration
: >for foo and finally link them together.
[...]
: I have the same problem with or without the 'extern"C"'. In the 
: real-world case, "foo.h" is a 3rd-party vendor header. We're just 
: not in a position to rewrite our favorite vendor's K&R headers.

You might try 'protoize' which is part of gcc. Here is a file I tried
it on:

  int foo(boo, ba)
     int boo, ba;
  {
     return boo + ba;   
  }

.. and here is what 'protoize' generated:

  int foo(int boo, int ba)
  {
     return boo + ba;   
  }

There is also a program called 'unprotoize'.
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