<html lang="en"> <head> <title>C Interoperability - The GNU Go Compiler</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html"> <meta name="description" content="The GNU Go Compiler"> <meta name="generator" content="makeinfo 4.13"> <link title="Top" rel="start" href="index.html#Top"> <link rel="prev" href="Import-and-Export.html#Import-and-Export" title="Import and Export"> <link rel="next" href="Index.html#Index" title="Index"> <link href="http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/" rel="generator-home" title="Texinfo Homepage"> <!-- Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, the Front-Cover Texts being (a) (see below), and with the Back-Cover Texts being (b) (see below). A copy of the license is included in the section entitled ``GNU Free Documentation License''. (a) The FSF's Front-Cover Text is: A GNU Manual (b) The FSF's Back-Cover Text is: You have freedom to copy and modify this GNU Manual, like GNU software. Copies published by the Free Software Foundation raise funds for GNU development. --> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css"> <style type="text/css"><!-- pre.display { font-family:inherit } pre.format { font-family:inherit } pre.smalldisplay { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } pre.smallformat { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } pre.smallexample { font-size:smaller } pre.smalllisp { font-size:smaller } span.sc { font-variant:small-caps } span.roman { font-family:serif; font-weight:normal; } span.sansserif { font-family:sans-serif; font-weight:normal; } --></style> </head> <body> <div class="node"> <a name="C-Interoperability"></a> <p> Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="Index.html#Index">Index</a>, Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="Import-and-Export.html#Import-and-Export">Import and Export</a>, Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="index.html#Top">Top</a> <hr> </div> <h2 class="chapter">3 C Interoperability</h2> <p>When using <samp><span class="command">gccgo</span></samp> there is limited interoperability with C, or with C++ code compiled using <code>extern "C"</code>. <ul class="menu"> <li><a accesskey="1" href="C-Type-Interoperability.html#C-Type-Interoperability">C Type Interoperability</a>: How C and Go types match up. <li><a accesskey="2" href="Function-Names.html#Function-Names">Function Names</a>: How Go functions are named. </ul> </body></html>