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From: "Avery Pennarun" <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: linking libgit.a in C++ projects
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:55:26 -0400
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On 7/31/08, Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> wrote:
> Boaz Harrosh, Thu, Jul 31, 2008 15:04:50 +0200:
> > Produce a C file and header that defines some stable API to your
>  > GUI application, that does not expose any git internal headers.
>  > Then compile that, say git_api.c, with C compiler in Makefile
>  > and extern "C" link that file to your C++ application. This will
>  > completely insulate you from any git code.
>
> no, it wont. He still have to resolve name conflicts at the link time.

Language keywords (as opposed to function names) like 'new' and
'typename' are definitely not exported to the object files.  Moreover,
function parameter names aren't either.

Avery