How common is it to mix C with C++?

I wanted to know how widely used is the mixing of C++ and C. I mean as in using of C libraries/functions and call it in C++ program like how it is done here Mix C with C++. How extensive is its use in real world? Is it rarely used, avoided mostly or pretty common? Anybody can shed some lights on it??

It is fairly common. You can either

• compile the C stuff with C++ compiler without any issues OK, others noted that this is definitely not true: What issues can I expect compiling C code with a C++ compiler?

or

• use both object files, static and dynamic libraries compiled with C compiler but then you should be aware of name mangling that C++ compiler does and the C compiler does not (due to the fact that C does not allow name overloading but C++ does). In such case there is extern "C" linker directive to use C linkage, i.e. does not mangle names that has been compiled with C compiler.

For good explanation how to use C linkage in C++, refer e.g. to this answer here on SO: https://stackoverflow.com/a/1041880/12118546

This is the reason you often see code like this

#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif

// all of your legacy C code here

#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif

Sample from: https://stackoverflow.com/a/12994075/12118546

Cryptic linker errors like these would result if you would forget about this:

...
/home/AbiSfw/ccvvuHoX.o: In function `main':
prog.cpp:(.text+0x19): undefined reference to `foo()'
...

Sample from: https://stackoverflow.com/a/12573818/12118546