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Namespaces

Technical Consultant at Feabhas Ltd
Glennan is an embedded systems and software engineer with over 20 years experience, mostly in high-integrity systems for the defence and aerospace industry.

He specialises in C++, UML, software modelling, Systems Engineering and process development.
Glennan Carnie

In this article we look at one of the issues inherent in C when building larger projects – the problem of function and object naming. We look at the C++ solution to this: namespaces.

A problem with big projects in C

When we move to multi-file projects the problem in C is having to create unique names for functions and externs in the global namespace. If we don’t have unique definitions this will lead to a link-time error.

We could, of course, make […]

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