How does C's “extern” work?

Question

I have a C/C++ program that\'s a plugin to Firefox. Because it\'s a plugin, it has non-main entry points. Those entrypoints need to be compiled in C because otherwise they g

Answer 1

if the .c file includes the .h file and the function prototypes in the .h file are in an extern "C" block, everything should be ok. The functions declared as extern "C" won't have mangled names, all the other functions will.