Steps to reproduce:
1. there is no crash, onloy the impossibility of compiling+linking C++ apps
2. bugzilla only seems to offer this silly simplistic form
3. a crash is the most severe classification i could find


Stack trace:


Other information:
some unthinking person converted art_alloc/art_free/art_realloc from macros into functions to provide win32 compatibility. but they didn't put these declarations inside the C++ extern "C" block of art_misc.h. as a result, any C++ application that links against libart_lgpl and uses this header and code that calls art_alloc() will fail to link because the linker cannot find the C++-mangled version of art_alloc(). 

this was reported to debian several months ago, it appears not to have been fed upstream.