extern "C"
{
...
C header files
...
}
----- Original Message -----
From: Ronnie G Misra <rgmisra@MIT.EDU>
To: <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu>
Cc: <rgmisra@MIT.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, July 01, 1999 5:16 PM
Subject: linux headers and C++
> I'm trying to build a kernel module in C++. This code includes some of
> the linux kernel header files, and unfortunately does not compile with
> recent versions of the kernel. The code is not my own - I have
> inherited it from someone else - but I am assured that it used to
> compile.
>
> The error I get has to do with include/linux/signal.h under the kernel
> source tree: the functions siginitset and siginitsetinv both contain
> switch statements which are invalid C++ syntax (and in fact, are
> invalid in C, but which make use of a gcc extension). Specifically,
> the last label ("case 1:") in these statements should be followed by a
> semicolon.
>
> I have just subscribed to the linux-kernel mailing list, but I am not
> sure I will get your responses, so please cc any discussion of this to
> my address.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ronnie Misra rgmisra@mit.edu
> 3 Ames Street, Box 152
> Cambridge, MA 02142
> (617) 225-6365
>
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