RFR 6722928: Support SSPI as a native GSS-API provider

[Nico Williams]

On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 11:12:00AM -0500, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> On Jan 17, 12:04am, weijun.wang at oracle.com (Weijun Wang) wrote:
> -- Subject: Re: RFR 6722928: Support SSPI as a native GSS-API provider
> 
> | Hi Nico,
> | 
> | Can you provide more explanation on below? I have't touched C/C++ for quite=
> |  some time and I really forgot what extern "C" is for. I included it here o=
> | nly because it's also in gssapi.h and I thought I should make the declarati=
> | on and implementation consistent.
> 
> I am not Nico, but:
> 
> extern "C" <decl>;
> 
> or
> 
> extern "C" {
> 	<decl>
> };
> 
> Tells the compiler that the functions/variables/types declared are supposed
> to follow "C" linkage conventions (they are meant to be used from "C" or
> compiled using a "C" compiler). For functions this means that their names
> don't get mangled, etc.
> 
> I hope this helps,

Ah, and that code doesn't need to be C, so never mind that one comment
of mine.

Nico
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