[vdr] Thread start functions and external C linkage (VDR starts it's threads "incorrectly")

[Jonas Munsin]

On 2/12/06, Sascha Volkenandt (ML) <lists at magoa.net> wrote:
>
> Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> > This would allow anybody to do
> >
> >   cThread t;
> >   StartThread(&t);
> >
> > which I don't think would be a good thing to do.
> >
> > Any ideas how to prevent this from happening?
>
> It's perfectly okay to declare StartThread
>
> extern "C" static void *StartThread(cThread *Thread);
>
>
Shouldn't a nameless namepsace be used here? gcc 3.4.3 does not like extern
"C" static
at all (error: multiple storage classes in declaration of ...). i.e., in
thread.c:

namespace {
    extern "C" void *StartThread(cThread *Thread)
    {
    ....
    }
}
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