Hi,

in /usr/include/iconv.h, the iconv_t type is defined as being pointing
to a void structure :

struct __tag_iconv_t;
typedef	struct __tag_iconv_t	*iconv_t;

This seems to work fine with gcc, but g++ does not like it (even when
enclosed in extern "C"), because it mistakes it by a forward
declaration (that happens to me when I try to compile Abiword).

Is there any definite purpose for that definition, or is it possible to
switch from a void structure towards, for example, a long or an int32
for __tag_iconv_t ?

Vincent