[cfe-dev] extern "C" parsing

[Jay L. T. Cornwall]

Hi,

I am porting one of our internal tools built upon the ROSE 
source-to-source compiler to LLVM/Clang, to improve its scalability.

With the program:

extern "C" {
typedef struct {} MyStruct;
}

MyStruct a;

The clang driver from SVN successfully parses this. My library-based 
interface to clang, however, gives this error:

test.cpp:5:1: error: unknown type name 'MyStruct'

The presence of an extern "C" {} block appears to hide the type. It 
parses correctly without the block. I have set LangOptions::CPlusPlus 
but have been unable to locate an option which controls this behaviour.

Could you point me in the right direction?

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Jay L. T. Cornwall, Software Engineer
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