sc7088@leah.Albany.Edu (S Chakrabarti) (06/01/90)
Hi folks,
I am trying to port the AT & T voice library (written in C) to C++.
I do not have any source code available for the library functions.
All I have is the header file and the library archive.
The problem I encounter is that one of the header files contains
a varible called class. When I try to compile, it gives me error, since
"class" is reserved word for C++ compiler. Do you have any suggestion how
can I get around this problem without editing the sysmbol table of the
binary archive ?
my program looks like as following :
extern "C" {
#include <sys/v2.h>
#include <sys/vl.h>
#include <fnctl.h>
}
and the v2.h has a structure which has a field called "class".
Thanks in advance. I will really appreciate if any of you send me email
at sc7088@cs.albany.edu. This is very URGENT to my project.
I have another question to the advanced users of C++.
Usually when a library header file is ported to C++ version its
usually done in the following way :
#define localtime _____localtime
extern char * localtime()
#undef _____localtime
extern "C" {
char * localtime(...)
}
Why do we require to define and undefine them at the beginning ? I am still
not sure why it is done this way.
Please answer me at the email address sc7088@cs.albany.edu
Thanks again.
Samita Chakrabarti