Does extern “C” have any effect in C?

家住魔仙堡 提交于 2019-12-03 10:36:24

No, it's not valid C. It should only be used in C++ code to refer to functions defined in C code. The extern "C" should be surrounded in a ifdef __cplusplus/#endif block:

// For one function
#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C"
#endif
void func();

// For more than one function
#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C"
{
#endif

void func1();
void func2();

#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif

this is a C++ notation to tell the compiler/linker to use C calling standards.

Usually that line is wrapped in an pre-processor statement.

#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif

// stuff

#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif

Not valid in C. If present after preprocessing this will result in a diagnostic as per the standard.

For C++, this turns of name-mangling. See this for more details as to why it may be required. Can you post some more details?

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