C And C++ Coding Standards

Question

What are best practices with regards to C and C++ coding standards? Should developers be allowed to willy-nilly mix them together. Are there any complications when linking

Answer 1

If you have a function in C++ which calls a function in C which in turn calls another function in C++, and this later function throws an exception which should be caught by the first function, you can have problems unless you told the C compiler to enable generation of the exception handling tables.

For gcc, this is the -fexceptions parameter, which is enabled by default for C++ but disabled by default for C.