[LLVMdev] Calling functions

[Gordon Henriksen]

On Feb 22, 2008, at 11:43, Álvaro Castro wrote:

> I'm trying LLVM for generating code and I found something I cannot  
> figure out or find in the documentation:
>
> But if I want to call any function inside a C++ namespace I don't  
> find the way to do it. Imagine you want to call
>
> othernamespace::globalFunction()
>
> How should I do it?
> I've tried all the linkage types, but it's clear that's not the  
> solution.

Hi Álvaro,

Google for C++ name mangling to understand why what you're attempting  
doesn't work. Looking at the output of llvm-gcc may help you get it  
right, but it's probably easier to write C wrappers for your C++ code.

— Gordon