Re: Reference to a C++ object in GTK+ callbacks

[Wallace Owen <wallace owen L-3com com>]

On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 11:28 -0800, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
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> IIRC, I believe the functions only have to be static in this case if
> they're actually C++ class methods.  Plain old C global functions don't
> need to be static, though if they're only used in that one module,
> there's no reason *not* to make them static, and it's good practice to
> do so.

True.  the static keyword is 'overloaded' with a different meaning - it
doesn't change scope, but indicates that the function is one that
doesn't have an associated object.


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