Re: [PATCH] remove unnecessary extern "C" blocks

[Daniel P . Berrangé]

On Thu, Jan 12, 2023 at 01:10:13PM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Tue, 2023-01-10 at 09:49 +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > A handful of header files in QEMU are wrapped with extern "C" blocks.
> > These are not necessary: there are C++ source files anymore in QEMU,
> > and even where there were some, they did not include most of these
> > files anyway.
> > 
> > Remove them for consistency.
> 
> 
> Are we allowed C++ in qemu?

Not any more, we've just made an effort to eliminate the last part
of QEMU emulator related code that was C++.  All that's left is
one part of the Windows installer for the guest agent.

> I ask because we have a full single-tenant implementation of XenStore
> lying around, designed to be VMM-internal... that just happens to be
> written in C++.

That's unfortunate :-(

With regards,
Daniel
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