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<concept id="GUID-C7589C93-B517-4251-ACFB-B03E07993242" xml:lang="en"><title>Hybrid

Applications with Symbian C++ and Standard C</title><shortdesc/><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><conbody>

<p>If the developers want to use any of the P.I.P.S. APIs while writing some

Symbian application, they need to link to the corresponding library. The only

difference being that the developer does not have to link with the <codeph>STATICLIBRARY</codeph> <filepath>libcrt0.lib</filepath> in

the MMP file.</p>

<p>There are no additional P.I.P.S. specific changes that need to be done

in the source file in this case. This is possible, because the P.I.P.S. developer

of does not have to call any library initialization routine before use or

cleanup routine after use.</p>

<p>Some of the P.I.P.S. APIs assume that a cleanup stack is created and there

is a top-level TRAP. If the developer does not create either of the two, calling

such APIs may lead to application crash. </p>

<note>In a hybrid application, the user must make sure that the

cleanup stack is created and a top-level TRAP marker is done.</note>

<p>Hybrid application can also contain threads created using both <xref href="GUID-B0E661BC-4058-3256-B9C3-5A4FD52F6DE5.dita#GUID-B0E661BC-4058-3256-B9C3-5A4FD52F6DE5/GUID-6C840907-C3F7-34B7-97DB-CEDBA68EA277"><apiname>RThread::Create()</apiname></xref> and <codeph>pthread_create()</codeph>,

and can still use P.I.P.S. APIs in both the threads. In case of <xref href="GUID-B0E661BC-4058-3256-B9C3-5A4FD52F6DE5.dita#GUID-B0E661BC-4058-3256-B9C3-5A4FD52F6DE5/GUID-6C840907-C3F7-34B7-97DB-CEDBA68EA277"><apiname>RThread::Create()</apiname></xref> the

developer has to create cleanup stack and a top level TRAP for this thread

in the thread entry Function, if it is required; else this thread may crash

or panic. </p>

<p>An application can have both C++ and C source codes. In this case, in order

to give C linkage to C++ code- that is calling a function defined in a C++

file that may have C++ code, use extern “C”. For example:</p>

<codeblock xml:space="preserve">// File: sample.c

  void OtherFoo();

  void Foo() {

     OtherFoo();

  }

// File: useme.cpp

  extern “C” {

  void OtherFoo() {

     //Can use any C++ code here

     //Can use Symbian C++ code here

  }

  }

</codeblock>