Simon Marlow <marlo...@gmail.com> writes: >> One concern that I have is that the RTS's header file structure (where >> everything is #include'd via Rts.h) doesn't work very well for this >> particular use, where we have a group of headers specific to a >> particular subsystem (e.g. linker/*.h). Consequently, these header files >> currently lack enclosing `extern "C"` blocks (as well as >> Begin/EndPrivate blocks). It would be easy to add these, but I was >> curious to hear if others had any better ideas. >> >> > Not sure I understand the problem. Rts.h is for *public* APIs, those that > are accessible outside the RTS, but these APIs are mostly *internal*. The > public-facing linker API is in includes/rts/Linker.h. > > We don't need extern "C" in the internal header files because we're never > going to include these from C++ (we do in the external ones though). But we > should have BeginPrivate.h/EndPrivate.h in the internal headers. >
Ahh, right; silly me. I'll just add the necessary BeginPrivates and hopefully we get this merged after Karel reports back with the results of his testing. Thanks Simon! Cheers, - Ben
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