diff --git a/linker/linker_format.h b/linker/linker_format.h
index 6ae2bad..3766b62 100644
--- a/linker/linker_format.h
+++ b/linker/linker_format.h
@@ -31,6 +31,10 @@
 #include <stdarg.h>
 #include <stddef.h>
 
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+extern "C" {
+#endif
+
 /* Formatting routines for the dynamic linker's debug traces */
 /* We want to avoid dragging the whole C library fprintf()   */
 /* implementation into the dynamic linker since this creates */
@@ -38,4 +42,8 @@
 
 int format_buffer(char *buffer, size_t bufsize, const char *format, ...);
 
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+};
+#endif
+
 #endif /* _LINKER_FORMAT_H */