From 534933290738056065 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f78e5,bb04047befc790b4,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-02-21 11:54:00 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-01!supernews.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!dispose.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!mail2news.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: MikeAlpha@NoSpam_csi.com (Martin Aupperle) Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: empty parameter list and extern "C" Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 19:51:25 GMT Organization: Nikoma Mediaworks GmbH Approved: Fergus Henderson , moderator of comp.std.c++ Message-ID: <3a91a017.213629713@news.nikoma.de> X-Trace: mail2news.demon.co.uk 982785099 mail2news:9061 mail2news mail2news.demon.co.uk X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Mail2News-Path: news.demon.net!mulga.cs.mu.oz.au X-Robomod: STUMP, ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov) X-Authentication-Warning: backdraft.briar.org: smap set sender to using -f NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 21:35:58 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.21/32.243 Lines: 38 Xref: supernews.google.com comp.std.c++:3728 Hello, I hope that I remember right that a function with the signature void f(); and compiled under a C-compiler can be called with arbitrary arguments. But when I declare extern "C" void f(); and compile under a C++ compiler, I cannot call f with arguments. Is it correct that an empty argument list means "no arguments" even if we compile against an implementation that allows it ( here, the implementation of f is likely to be in a C-Module that must make no assumptions about the arguments and therefore can be called with arbitrary ones) ? Thanks - Martin ------------------------------------------------ Martin Aupperle MikeAlpha@NoSpam_csi.com (remove NoSpam_) ------------------------------------------------ --- [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. To submit articles, try just posting with ] [ your news-reader. If that fails, use mailto:std-c++@ncar.ucar.edu ] [ --- Please see the FAQ before posting. --- ] [ FAQ: http://www.research.att.com/~austern/csc/faq.html ] [ Note that the FAQ URL has changed! Please update your bookmarks. ]