Off hand I don't know of anything written in C++ that is or could be a user of gfapi. Never the less, it's possible that one could exist, or be written, and marking the library entry points is a) friendly, b) possibly allows the C++ compiler to generate better code, and c) is a good practice when writing APIs that might be consumed by C++ applications. Considering we already take the first step and use __BEGIN_DECLS/__END_DECLS to be C++ friendly, we should take the extra step Change-Id: Ib319ecaa452a46f258a9c6e8c7221454d2fefd0f Signed-off-by: Kaleb S. KEITHLEY <kkeithle@redhat.com> Reviewed-on: http://review.gluster.org/6393 Tested-by: Gluster Build System <jenkins@build.gluster.com> Reviewed-by: Anand Avati <avati@redhat.com>