Thread: accessing static functions in header via macro

Just wandering, will something like this work?


header

Code:

#define func(arg) func_(arg)

...

static void func_(arg);

code

Code:

#include "header"

int main()
{
    func(arg);
}

No. static is essentially an instruction to the linker not to export the symbol from the file in which it is defined. You can't defeat it by a #define, which is processed much earlier (think of the preprocessor as issuing only word processing instructions).