[petsc-dev] meaning of PETSC_USE_EXTERN_CXX?

[Matthew Knepley]

On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 6:49 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

>
>    From the below I am assuming that PETSC_USE_EXTERN_CXX is equivalent to
> --with-c-support   Is this correct?
>
>    And I assume that --with-c-support means that PETSc is compiled with
> C++ but does not use name mangling   Is this correct?
>
>    If the above two are correct does the name PETSC_USE_EXTERN_CXX
> actually correlate to what it means? Could it be changed to something
> meaningful?
>

Do you mean like PETSC_NO_NAME_MANGLING?

   Matt


>     Please explain,
>
>      Barry
>
>
> #if defined(PETSC_CLANGUAGE_CXX) && !defined(PETSC_USE_EXTERN_CXX) &&
> !defined(__cplusplus)
> #error "PETSc configured with --with-clanguage=c++ and NOT
> --with-c-support - it can be used only with a C++ compiler"
> #endif
>
>
>


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