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Discussion on: When your C++ code complains about undefined references

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DynamicSquid

Is extern "C" all you need to compile C code in C++? What about the C only features?

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Tenry

I never had trouble with that approach in the past, and most C libraries I see I could also only spot the extern "C" thing (if __cplusplus is defined). Do you have any C specific features in mind that could not work?

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DynamicSquid

I think variable length arrays are one