Mixed calling conventions make compilation errors

Question

I have a library (C++) which has some API functions. One of them is declared as __cdecl, but gets a function poiner from __stdcall. Something like:

typedef  int (__stdcall *Func)(unsigned char* buffer);
//...
int ApiFunc(Func funcPtr); //This is __cdecl since it is an 'extern "C"' library and the calling convention is not specified

Then - I have a C++ executable project which uses this library, but doesn't call the above API or uses the Func type.

After changing the calling convention of Func to __stdcall, I get the following compilation error:

error C2995: 'std::pointer_to_unary_function<_Arg,_Result,_Result(__cdecl *)(_Arg)> std::ptr_fun(_Result (__cdecl *)(_Arg))' : function template has already been defined c:\program files\microsoft visual studio 8\vc\include\functional

Any idea what could it be?

Thanks in advance!!

Answer 1

Err.. they're incompatible. You have to specify the same calling convention on both sides of the call. Otherwise attempting to call will blow up the machine stack.