Thread: using c++ in c code

I didn't say the C++ modules are compiled with a C compiler. You have to use a c++ compiler to do that, such as g++, Dev-C++, VC++ 6.0/7.0, and many other c++ compilers. c++ compilers can compile both c and c++ modules, and it knows how to compile by the file extension (*.c for C code and either *.cpp or *.cc for c++ code). Many c++ compilers have additional options to recognize other file extensions.

If you want to link both C and C++ into the same executable, then yes, the C runtime libraries will also be linked into the program.

[edit]The above assumes that the source code for all *.c and *.cpp files is available and can be modified as needed. In OP case, I don't think he does -- it appears he may be trying to call c++ library functions from c, which as you said before, cannot be done.

Thanks for the help everyone. It seems that my problem is not trivial to solve, so I'll try to code my own memory manager library.

btw : as a side-question :
in c++, when you declare a function like this :

int &function(...);

hen what does the & mean?