John W. Eaton wrote:
> Is there any reason that the strftime.h header in gnulib does not use
> extern "C"? If not, then would the following patch be OK?
No one asked for it.
I've pushed this:
>From ee8909a98bbfffc6317e1e9273e1cb8d6341ea25 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John W. Eaton <j...@gnu.org>
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 08:24:25 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] strftime.h: wrap funtion declaration in extern "C" block
* lib/strftime.h (nstrftime) [__cplusplus]: Wrap declaration.
---
ChangeLog | 5 +++++
lib/strftime.h | 8 ++++++++
2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index fdb892b..e23f285 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2009-11-14 John W. Eaton <j...@gnu.org>
+
+ strftime.h: wrap funtion declaration in extern "C" block
+ * lib/strftime.h (nstrftime) [__cplusplus]: Wrap declaration.
+
2009-11-13 Eric Blake <e...@byu.net>
getgroups: avoid compiler warning
diff --git a/lib/strftime.h b/lib/strftime.h
index c3c183e..1937d40 100644
--- a/lib/strftime.h
+++ b/lib/strftime.h
@@ -17,6 +17,10 @@
#include <time.h>
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+extern "C" {
+#endif
+
/* Just like strftime, but with two more arguments:
POSIX requires that strftime use the local timezone information.
When __UTC is nonzero and tm->tm_zone is NULL or the empty string,
@@ -24,3 +28,7 @@
%N directive. */
size_t nstrftime (char *, size_t, char const *, struct tm const *,
int __utc, int __ns);
+
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+}
+#endif
--
1.6.5.2.372.gc0502
