Re: Anonymous namespace

From	Ruben Safir <ruben@mrbrklyn.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c++
Subject	Re: Anonymous namespace
Date	2011-06-04 05:08 +0000
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On Fri, 03 Jun 2011 20:17:24 +1200, Ian Collins wrote:

> On 06/ 3/11 08:08 PM, gwowen wrote:
>> On Jun 3, 3:54 am, r...@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) wrote:
>>>> What is the point of the anonymous namespace.
>>>
>>>    Names can be hidden from the linker (from other translation units),
>>>    even if they should have external linkage.
>>
>> Can someone give the benefits of external-but-unlinkable anon-
>> namespace variables (or functions) against old-school internal linkage
>> file-scope "static" variables and functions.
> 
> I guess the most common (at least in my case) use is to declare
> different classes with a common name in multiple source files.  I have
> lots of instances of
> 
> namespace {
>    struct TestObject { .. };
> }
> 
> in my unit test files.


YES - I can understand that.  Then you can have one in each transitional 
unit.  The problem arises when you #include two of them from different 
files.

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