Re: C++ Headers - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: C++ Headers
Date
Msg-id 7594.990318862@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: C++ Headers  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> The only mention I see of this is in c.h:
>     #ifndef __cplusplus
>     #ifndef bool
>     typedef char bool;
>     #endif   /* ndef bool */
>     #endif   /* not C++ */

> If you need more cplusplus stuff, lets figure it out and add it.

Actually, that portion of c.h is a time bomb that is likely to blow up
in the face of some poor C++ user.  There's no guarantee that a C++
compiler's built-in bool type will be compatible with "char", is there?
If it happened to be, say, same size as "int", then a C++ module
would interpret lots of things differently from a C module.
        regards, tom lane


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